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Man Sentenced to 2 Yrs for Importing Counterfeit Exercise Equipment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that a Los Angeles man, Sok Hun Jin, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods, for selling thousands of counterfeit, Chinese-made Ab Circle Pro machines that he illegally…

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imported into the U.S. In his guilty plea earlier in 2011, Jin admitted he arranged for separate packages with fake instructional DVDs, manuals, and stickers to be shipped from China. He was ordered to pay a $6,000 fine and $60,000 in restitution to the manufacturer of legitimate Ab Circle Pro machines.