Long Island 'boutique' owner nabbed with $40M in fake designer goods: cops
Explore More 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.
Lindsay Castelli, 31, of Smithtown sold faux Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Dior, Ugg, and Louis Vuitton knockoffs to scores of unsuspecting customers through websites and her store, officials said.
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.
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