Investigations

On October 24, 2008, Jack Alan Brown, an electronics salesman, pled guilty in U.S District Court, Rochester, New York to falsely representing himself as a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agent to an employee at a Federal Express (FedEx) facility in Rochester, NY, in order to recover undeclared hazardous packages (fireworks) he had shipped from New Hampshire to New York. This DOT/OIG case was investigated with the assistance of the FAA Eastern Region – Security & Hazardous Materials Division.