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61K Gun Safes Sold At Retailers Nationwide Recalled After 12-Year-Old Shot, Killed With Weapon 61K Gun Safes Sold At Retailers Nationwide Recalled After 12-Year-Old Shot, Killed With Weapon
61K Gun Safes Sold At Retailers Nationwide Recalled After 12-Year-Old Shot, Killed With Weapon More than 61,000 gun cases sold nationwide are being recalled due to a malfunction that can allow unauthorized people to access dangerous weapons, and already led to the death of a child. Illinois-based Fortress Safe announced this week that the biometric gun safes were being recalled due to a "serious safety hazard and risk of death" caused by a programming feature that made the safes more accessible.  The recall comes following a recent lawsuit that alleges a 12-year-old boy died from a gun obtained from one of the safes, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  "…

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YETI Recalls 1.9M Soft Coolers, Gear Cases Due to Magnet Ingestion Hazard YETI Recalls 1.9M Soft Coolers, Gear Cases Due to Magnet Ingestion Hazard
Yeti Recalls 1.9M Soft Coolers, Gear Cases Due to Magnet Ingestion Hazard Nearly two million YETI coolers are being recalled nationwide due to serious injury or death risk if one were to consume detached magnets that could potentially fuse together inside the body. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that approximately 1.9 million YETI soft coolers and gear cases that have magnet-lined closures that can fail and result in detached magnets are subject to the recall after hundreds of complaints were filed. “The magnet-lined closures can fail and result in detached magnets, posing a risk of serious injury or death if ingested,” according to CPS…

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Former NJ Resident Admits Embezzling $540,000 From Security Firm Former NJ Resident Admits Embezzling $540,000 From Security Firm
Former NJ Resident Admits Embezzling $540,000 From Security Firm A former Bergen County resident now living in Connecticut admitted Wednesday that she embezzled $540,000 from a local company. Melissa Corso, 50, and her husband lived in Closter when she worked for a Delaware-based security systems supplier with an office in Ridgefield Park, federal authorities said. Corso, currently of Groton, CT, and co-worker Joseph Spaccavento steered customer payments owed to their former employer to a PayPal account registered to him and linked to her work email, according to an FBI complaint. The customers, in turn, sent more than $3.1 million through 1,150 transa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Former NJ Resident Embezzled $540,000 From Security Firm Feds: Former NJ Resident Embezzled $540,000 From Security Firm
Feds: Former NJ Resident Embezzled $540,000 From Security Firm A former Bergen County resident now living in Connecticut embezzled $540,000 intended for a local company that she diverted into a PayPal account for herself, her husband and a co-worker, federal authorities charged. A federal judge in Connecticut ordered Melissa Corso, 50, of Groton, held pending transfer to New Jersey to face wire fraud charges after the FBI arrested her on Thursday. Corso and her husband lived in Closter when she worked for a Delaware-based security systems supplier with an office in Ridgefield Park, federal authorities said. For more than six years, beginning in early …

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by Jerry DeMarco