LOS ANGELES—A Chinese appliance manufacturer and two of its subsidiaries will pay $91 million for failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that millions of dehumidifiers sold to U.S. consumers were defective and could catch fire, federal prosecutors said Oct. 29. Gree Electric Appliances Inc.. an appliance manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, China, and Hong Kong Gree Electric Appliances Sales Co. Ltd. struck the deal with prosecutors to resolve criminal charges in federal court in Los Angeles. “No one should live in fear that a properly used consumer product might cause injury or death to their loved ones,” Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison said in a statement. “Gree’s months-long delay in reporting known problems with their dangerous and defective dehumidifiers was both criminal and costly. Gree’s decision to delay the reporting of its defective dehumidifiers has resulted in the recall of millions of those products and the …