Two former corporate executives from Southern California have been sentenced to more than three years in prison for failing to report defective dehumidifiers linked to hundreds of fires to the public safety agency.
Simon Chu, 70, of Pomona, and Charles Loh, 67, of Arcadia, were executives of Gree USA, a subsidiary of China-based appliance company Gree Electric Appliances. According to federal prosecutors, in September 2012, the two defendants received several reports that their China-manufactured dehumidifiers were defective and could catch fire, but they chose not to report the issue to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
