CORE NEWS - Buyers may be in jail or fines for buying a fake designer handbags attempt to clean up counterfeit racket in New York, New York Post Tuesday.
Shoppers could face one year imprisonment or a fine of $ 1,000 in a bill proposed by a city councilman stingy enough tourists and residents of the Big Apple flooding the city looking for branded goods counterfeiting.
The fine would be buying a fake designer bag, which sells for about $ 40, cost almost as much as the real thing, an authentic Marc Jacobs handbags for sale $ 1,250 in stores.
New York City Council wife, Margaret Chin will present the new bill Thursday that would mean that someone could be jailed or fined if they were caught buying counterfeit goods.
"We do not want to be known as the place to be counterfeit," said Council Woman Chin, a Chinatown is the zero point for counterfeiters. "It 's a very big problem. People are still arriving, and the sector is growing, and we must stop the application. We need people to know that they are feeding that demand."Louis Vuitton Monogram Purses
Chin others expressed support for the bill, and she already has five co-sponsors.
The penalty may seem draconian, but it was necessary to reduce a growing problem, "he said.
She stressed that the money that counterfeiters often rake in more funds nefarious activities such as terrorism and insecurity practices of child labor.
But Christine Gambino Bargain Hunter, 21, of Staten Island - who was in China Town on Monday, wearing a fake Louis Vuitton bag that cost him $ 40 - have pledged to keep hitting the neighborhood of counterfeit products.
"I want to take a risk and sacrifice to look good and pay less," she said.
Erma Charles of Brooklyn said he knew that buying counterfeit goods was wrong, but could not resist the discounts. "Everybody steals," said the teacher.
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