INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS and COMMERCIAL FRAUD | New toolkit helps consumers avoid scams while holiday shopping

The holiday shopping season is underway and the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) has launched a new holiday shopping toolkit to help consumers protect themselves from substandard or even hazardous counterfeit toys, electronics, cosmetics and other products. Read more

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS and COMMERCIAL FRAUD | IPR Center, Europol make Cyber Monday shopping safer; seize $3 million in counterfeit goods

Through the ongoing international Operation “In Our Sites,” the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and Europol seized or shut down more than 490,475 websites illegally selling counterfeit goods and other copyright-protected material to unsuspecting consumers between November 2020 and November 2021, keeping holiday shoppers safe 12 years running. Read more

LABOR EXPLOITATION | Human trafficking, forced labor charges are first under ICE’s new labor exploitation program focusing on abusive employers

A newly unsealed indictment charging 24 individuals with labor trafficking of Mexican and Central American workers under brutal conditions on South Georgia farms is the first investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) under the new labor exploitation model. Read more

CHILD EXPLOITATION | HSI partners with State Attorney General’s office in child exploitation investigation resulting in conviction and lengthy federal prison sentence

A Kentucky man will serve 32 years in federal prison after being sentenced on Monday for production, attempted production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. Read more

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