Security News in Brief: Four Defendants Arrested in Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeit Goods Trafficking Scheme

Source: United States Department of Justice News

A 14-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging seven defendants with participating in a counterfeit goods scheme in which they imported generic goods into the United States from China, applied brand labels to those goods in workshops, some of which were controlled by the defendants, and then sold those counterfeit-branded goods to retail and wholesale purchasers.