By Michael Shain
Before there was fake news, there were fake goods. A big-time business, especially at holiday time.
Even major sports trophies are ripe for the knock off.
Why not buy your own Oscar for the mantle? Maybe a Vince Lombardi Super Bowl trophy for the den?
Federal agents who called a press conference this week at a cargo facility in JFK airport showed reporters a Major League Baseball trophy, awarded to the team that wins the World Series, that had been bought on the Internet by the wife of a major leaguer who’d been on a championship team.
“She wanted him to have his own copy,” said one federal agent.
The flood of counterfeit goods meanwhile is still a big problem in the U.S., taking billions away from legitimate, tax-paying businesses here.
