LI 'boutique' owner nabbed with $40M in fake designer goods: cops
A Long Island “boutique” owner was nabbed with more than $40 million in fake designer goods — part of an illicit cache she peddled around the country, authorities said Tuesday.
Nassau County detectives recovered 22 printing presses at the store that were used to create “thousands of synthetic heat-sealed counterfeit labels,” which Castelli would then attach to the cheap clothing items before jacking their price way up, police said. “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.Linny's Boutique“This was a sophisticated operation operating two fashion merchandise companies, Christian Salvatore New York and Linny’s Boutique,’’ she said,During her illegal operation, “thousands of pounds’’ of haughty hoaxes were being shipped all over the US to unwitting customers, authorities said.
“Totally betrayed — you go in expecting that you’re buying as advertised and that you’re buying quality,” shopper Carole RutkovskyNassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said, “This is something that we do not tolerate in Nassau County.