
Forget Handbags: Household Items Among Goods Seized in Counterfeit Busts
Counterfeiting has become a $500 billion-a-year criminal industry that permeates everything people carry, wear and even ingest. “[These are] everyday American products that could be retailed in any store around the United States,” Lev Kubiak, director of the Intellectual Property Rights Center in Washington, D.C., told ABC News’ “20/20.”
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