Store Owner Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Counterfeit Shoes & Apparel
The Justice Department has announced that on November 15, 2011, Belal Amin Alsaidi pleaded guilty to trafficking in shoes and apparel that he knew were counterfeit at his two stores in Petersburg, Virginia from May 2007 until March 2009. According…
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to court documents, Alsaidi received more than 1,400 packages of counterfeit merchandise at his stores from New York. The merchandise bore fake trademarks for companies such as Nike, NFL, Lacoste, True Religion and Coogi. At sentencing, which is scheduled for February 23, 2012, Alsaidi faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $2 million fine.