John H. Carrington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1934
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 28-Feb-2017
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About John H. Carrington
- John Hunter Carrington (25 October 1934–28 February 2017) was a Republican former member of the North Carolina General Assembly who long represented the state's fifteenth Senate district, including constituents in Wake county.
- He headed a major company in the evidence-collection and security business. Carrington was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he enlisted in the United States Army in 1953 and served as a paratrooper during the Korean War until 1955.
- Following his military service, he completed his high school education in 1957 and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Widener College in 1962.
- Professionally, Carrington rose to become CEO of the Sirchie Group, a company specializing in evidence-collection gear for police and top-dollar security products for businesses.
- He was first elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1995. In 2005, Carrington was charged with illegally exporting evidence-collection gear to China and took a plea bargain in December 2005 to felony charges in which he has been fined $850,000.
- One of his companies also took a plea agreement in the matter.The law was altered to allow such exports a few years later.
- Many large companies have had to make files to track their resold goods to avoid penalty.
- The charge was for rape kits, finger print imaging kits, finger printing powder kits, and other evidence collecting products, etc.
- The effects were not sold directly to China, but were resold without the explicit knowledge of Carrington.
- Paper handling and documentation were handled badly by Carrington.
- However, under the law this circumstance was not an exception and a guilty plea was submitted.
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