US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania (networkworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:58AM from the buying-other-people's-stuff dept.

coondoggie writes: "Cyber Monday is generally thought to be the start of the online holiday shopping season. We would like to encourage shoppers who are already online in search of bargains to consider stopping by our auction website to bid on forfeited assets," said Jason Wojdylo, Chief Inspector of the U.S. Marshals Service Asset Forfeiture Division in a statement. These online auctions are designed to generate proceeds from ill-gotten gains to give back to victims, he stated. One auction includes a wine collection of approximately 2,800 bottles seized from once prominent wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan, who is serving a 10-year federal prison sentence following his conviction of selling millions of dollars of counterfeit wine.

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Let me get this straight by viperidaenz · 2015-11-30 12:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

Some guy is in jail for 10 years for selling counterfeit wine.
The cops are now selling his counterfeit wine.
If a shop buys these bottles and re-sells them, isn't that still illegally selling counterfeit products?
If you import a counterfeit product and it's stopped at the border, it either gets destroyed or you have to pay to ship it back.