Just in time for Super Bowl XLIX, federal agencies on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 325,000 phony sports memorabilia items along with other counterfeit merchandise worth nearly $20 million. Law enforcement officers also made 52 arrests in the crackdown, “Operation Team Player.”
Counterfeiting is “most certainly not a victimless crime,” said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña of the sweep, undertaken in partnership with the National Football League. “Whether it’s the child in Southeast Asia working in deplorable conditions, or local stores going out of business, intellectual property theft is a very real crime with very real victims.”
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