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Office of Inspector General |
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| Title: | Former Company Vice President Fined for Illegally Shipping Hazmat |
| Date: | January 21, 2004 |
| Type: | Investigation |
| Summary: | Daryl Schumacher, former vice president of International Trading and Marketing of Lancaster, PA, was fined $2,700 by a U.S. District Court judge in Philadelphia, PA, for deliberately shipping thousands of undeclared gas-charged lighters and matches by air between January 1999 and October 2000, in violation of the Federal hazardous material law. Schumacher pleaded guilty in September 2002. He received a reduced sentence in exchange for his cooperation with other OIG hazardous materials investigations. |