William “Bill” Hewig, III has represented accused maritime sexual predators in some of the most high profile sexual misconduct proceedings before the U.S. Coast Guard Administrative Law Judge Court System, and Hewig has consistently achieved remarkable outcomes for his sexually predatory clients.

(See U.S. Coast Guard vs. Samuel S. Irvin and U.S. Coast Guard vs. Mark S. Stinziano.

In Irvin, a member of the Masters, Mates & Pilots labor union was charged with raping, forcibly sodomizing, molesting, and sexually harassing numerous females crewmembers aboard his vessel. Hewig worked hard to strike a secret settlement agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard that allowed Irvin to keep his Merchant Mariner License, and allowed Irvin to continue preying on vulnerable female mariners at sea.

In Stinziano, Hewig wrote a 52 page appellate brief arguing that grabbing someone from behind and rubbing your genitals into the other person’s buttocks without the other person’s permission is not a sexual assault, and that groping another man in his gentials and touching another man’s anus is not sexual assault. Read it for yourself.

Links to MLAA stories and documents featuring the work of William Hewig, III:

1. Maersk captain suspended four months after U.S. Coast Guard Administrative Law judge rules multiple sexual assaults and pattern of extreme sexual harassment against USMMA deck cadet constituted ‘hazing’, not ‘molestation’

2. USCG vs. Stinziano: Defense Submits Reply Brief to USCG Commandant. Tedious & Unpersuasive Brief Argues Maersk Captain Should Not have his Captain’s License permanently REVOKED (July 23, 2022).

3. William Hewig’s 52 Page Appellate Brief in U.S. Coast Guard vs. Mark S. Stinziano

4. Maersk Chief Mate Charged With Shipboard Rape and Molestation By U.S. Coast Guard Allowed to Keep His Merchant Mariner’s License After Signing Secret Settlement Agreement

5. PART TWO: U.S. Coast Guard vs. Stinziano—“Maersk Sends in the Lawyers and Swings Into Sex Crime Coverup Mode”—February 3, 2015

6. Coast Guard Attorney Sarah Grabenstein Co-Authored USCG vs. Stinziano. Her Infamous Opinion Legalized Shipboard Sexual Assault & Mental & Physical Torture. Now, No One is Safe at Sea.

7. U.S. Coast Guard Prosecutors File Notice of Appeal In U.S.C.G. vs. Mark Stinziano. New Commandant Linda Fagan Will Decide Fate of Maersk Captain. Decision Expected in August 2022.

8. Melogy v. Maersk: When MLAA Founder Filed A Union Grievance Against A Sexually Predatory Maersk Captain, Disgraced MMP President Don Marcus & Maersk Leadership Conspired to Shield Him From Justice

9. In Sign of Fear & Desperation, Maersk Filed a Federal Lawsuit Against the U.S. Coast Guard Seeking Legally Privileged Info About Maritime Legal Aid & Advocacy & Its Founder J. Ryan Melogy