A King of Prussia man, a retired special education teacher who once worked at Lower Merion and Harriton high schools and who federal authorities said traveled to the Philippines to have sex with minors, was sentenced to more than three decades in prison.
Craig Alex Levin, 67, exact address unavailable, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III to 35 years in a federal penitentiary, essentially a life sentence. The King of Prussia man, a retired special education teacher who once worked at Lower Merion and Harriton high schools and who federal authorities said traveled to the Philippines to have sex with minors, was sentenced to more than three decades in prison.
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How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) which recently surpassed Maersk to become the world’s largest ocean carrier confirmed it “suffered significant financial and reputational damage” from the record-breaking drug bust aboard its ship, the MSC Gayane, in 2019.
MSC detailed the extent of the consequences in a newly filed court document consequences that include over $100 million in additional security costs. “The company and everyone in it are victims,” MSC wrote in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III.
Stranger than fiction
The MSC Gayane drug-smuggling case calls to mind a quote from Mark Twain: “Truth is stranger than fiction.”