Counterfeiting and forgery

Counterfeiting and forgery

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  NYC debates crackdown on counterfeit luxury goods

  Bargain hunters from around the world flock to Manhattan's Chinatown for bags, jewelry and other accessories bursting onto sidewalks from storefronts ... 

• German police break up international art ring

  German police said Thursday they have broken up a multi-million-euro (-dollar) international forgery ring which specialized in producing bogus works ... 

• Drugmakers, Interpol ramp up fight against fakes

  More than two dozen of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have agreed to provide funding and other support to Interpol's battle against ... 

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  Obama issues pardons to 17 for minor offenses

  President Barack Obama on Friday issued pardons for 17 people, largely for minor offenses. Those receiving pardons came from 13 states and had been ... 

• FDA warns of new fake batch of cancer drug Avastin

  The Food and Drug Administration is warning U.S. doctors about another counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin, the third case involving the ... 

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  SUPER BOWL WATCH: Beyonce, avocados, practice

  Around Super Bowl XLVII and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the ... 

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  Feds: $13.6M in phony sports goods confiscated

  Investigators have confiscated more than $13.6 million worth of phony sports merchandise over the past five months and expect to seize more in New ... 

• UK man jailed over forged Churchill signatures

  A British antiques dealer has been jailed for 10 months for forging the signatures of Winston Churchill and other famous figures in books he sold as ...