Imitation Nation

Sven and Shabbir discuss three big stories of the wee:

• Reuters story on the Brazilian coffee industry’s concerns with products that have Brazil in the name of the product, but don’t contain Brazilian sourced coffee beans. 

• A case, investigated by Homeland Security Investigation, and prosecuted by The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis IL of a woman who plead guilty to selling counterfeit designer goods and cosmetics.

•  The NYPD just busted not the street vendors, but one of the warehouses that supplies the street vendors. They said in just the three room apartment they seized they found over $40 million dollars worth of counterfeit handbags, sunglasses, Apple products, etc.