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01.30.2020
$123M worth of fake sports merchandise seized
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has announced the seizure of more than 176,000 counterfeit sports-related items with a street value of approximately $123 million.
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01.29.2020
Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its first-ever report that outlines a series of recommendations and actions that can be taken by the federal government and industry partners to combat trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods.
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01.22.2020
IPR Center hosts agreement signing to combat forced labor
Memorandum of understanding furthers DHS strategy to combat human trafficking and the importation of goods produced with forced labor.
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01.16.2020
HSI-led investigation leads to $300K worth of counterfeit goods
NEW ORLEANS – When it comes to college football playoff games, sports fans are passionate about their sports apparel, especially when purchasing national championship gear to help preserve the thrill of victory. However, in New Orleans, the agony of defeat is being felt among a handful of vendors caught selling counterfeit merchandise during the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game between LSU and Clemson.
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01.09.2020
Illinois man faces 13 years in prison for trafficking fake pills
An Illinois man who manufactured counterfeit pills in an unsanitary garage, marked them as prescription Xanax, then trafficked more than 4 million of them throughout the U.S. has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison.
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12.19.2019
HSI investigates counterfeit sex enhancement pill distribution network
A three-year investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into a criminal organization responsible for illegal imports and sales of male sexual enhancement pills branded and marketed as ‘herbal’ medicine has resulted in multiple criminal convictions. The convictions are part of a larger investigation into the importer and initial distributor of the drug, eventually identified as John Lee, who was recently sentenced to 100 months in federal prison.
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12.16.2019
Guilty pleas in illegal movie/television streaming case
Two Las Vegas men have pleaded guilty to multiple criminal copyright and money laundering charges in connection with iStreamItAll, one of the biggest illegal television show and movie streaming services in the U.S. Investigators also allege efforts to help build Jetflicks, a similarly large illegal television show streaming service.
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12.10.2019
Man sentenced for trafficking counterfeit electronics
A Las Vegas business owner is going to federal prison for running a years-long conspiracy to import more than $1M worth of counterfeit electronics from China into the United States. The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.
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12.04.2019
More than one million illegal websites seized
The IPR Center, working cooperatively with law enforcement agencies worldwide, marked Cyber Monday with an announcement that more than one million copyright-infringing domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works have been shutdown.
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11.27.2019
Holiday Shoppers: Beware of Scams!
The IPR Center and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourage holiday shoppers to take identity theft precautions to safeguard credit card numbers, phone numbers, account numbers, and addresses while shopping.
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11.26.2019
Oregon man pleads guilty in $8M scheme
A cooperative investigation involving Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has resulted in an Oregon man pleading guilty to criminal infringement of copyright and tax evasion charges in a scheme to reproduce and distribute for sale thousands of copyrighted movies and television shows.
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11.08.2019
IPR Center applauds DHS Secretary Award recipients
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center is acknowledging the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary’s Awards for 2019 that were presented during a special ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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11.06.2019
HSI Detroit hosts first IPR enforcement field training event
More than 70 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel from the Detroit area recently converged at the first-ever Anti-Counterfeiting Issues and Product ID Training Fair to learn more about counterfeiting and how to observe fakes.
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11.06.2019
Operation Holiday Hoax seizes counterfeit toys worth more than $5M
In a port that is capable of handling more than 2.4 million tons of cargo in a year, you would think a containerized cargo shipment of toys could easily get lost in the daily shuffle. Not so, when a suspicious shipment arrives from China containing counterfeit toys, some of which tested positive for lead content.
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11.01.2019
Counterfeit fentanyl pill dealer sentenced to 30 years
A Florida man faces 30 years in federal prison for money laundering and conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogue. Court records show he and others manufactured and distributed hundreds of thousands of counterfeit oxycodone 30 mg pills that were made with fentanyl ordered from China.
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