Office of Investigation in Phoenix, said customers who buy phony goods also unwittingly support criminal enterprises.
Here is Rendezvous's quick guide to phony goods in markets where Mr. Obama is stopping — Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.
China is considered one of the worst offenders in counterfeiting foreign goods like CD's, videos, electronics and luxury watches, and the occasional crackdown is often publicized by showing a steamroller crushing the phony goods.
Among the dislikes: "Greek Hellenistic Sculpture," "Painters — Phony," "Elegance," "Good Taste".
B1 Police Corruption Charges Five veteran police officers were charged with accepting phony designer goods from a street peddler in exchange for providing confidential information about search warrants aimed at counterfeit goods.
The pilot nails both the Darwinian grimness of Silicon Valley — where even a liquor-store clerk complains that his app hasn't been funded — and the way it gets packaged in phony do-gooder-ism.
Kids have good phony meters.
CHRISTmas really brings out the worst in people: crass materialism, obsessive consumerism, phony cheer and good will, excessive drinking and eating, isolation and loneliness, religious fundamentalism, etc.
In the words of Ferris Bueller, "A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a deadlock, but, uh... you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office.
With the arrogance of successful con men, they now want to sell us the same phony bill of goods again: more oil and food and "safe" reactors in return for more empty promises of shell-game inspections.
