Proprietor of Site Selling Counterfeit Cisco Cables Sentenced in Seattle
Daniel Oberholtzer and his company, ConnectZone.com, were sentenced July 11 in U.S. District Court in Seattle for their role in the production and sales of counterfeit Cisco Systems products, said ICE in a press release. The company was sentenced to…
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five years' organizational probation and Oberholtzer will serve 37 months in federal prison and will pay a fine of $20,000, the agency said. Oberholtzer used several foreign sources in China for the counterfeit cables, which were eventually sold on the website as genuine, it said. Investigators said the defendants mislabeled the counterfeit shipments as "samples" in order to evade detection. Oberholtzer was one of four individuals charged in the indictment last year.