Woman Busted Running Bootleg Boutique
A woman who owned a boutique in Long Island, New York was busted running a $40 million counterfeiting ring. She would iron on Gucci, Chanel and Prada labels onto cheaper items of clothing and then sell them as the real deal.
Lindsay Castelli Bullock, who owns Linny’s Boutique, now faces second-degree counterfeiting charges. After the raid, detectives are said to have found 22 printing press machines used to create the fake labels, which were heat-sealed on garments with an iron. They also found clothing and jewels that is said to have falsely passed-off as being genuine Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Dior, Ugg, and Louis Vuitton. “A simple $10 sweatshirt, you put the Chanel brand on it, it sells for $5,300,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said at a press conference.
“They would take a hat, a $3 hat, a 50-cent item on the side. They would heat-seal it onto the hat and sell the hat for $300,’’ Ryder said. [Source: New York Post]
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