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Wire Fraud

Federal prosecutors unsealed a 76-count criminal indictment against 14 people, charging them with importing more than 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads from China, exchanging them for real ones at Apple stores, then shipping the real devices back to China, making $6.1 million from the scam.

SAN DIEGO — Federal prosecutors unsealed a 76-count criminal indictment against 14 people, charging them with importing more than 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads from China, exchanging them for real ones at Apple stores, then shipping the real devices back to China, making $6.1 million from the scam.

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