A 31-year-old man has admitted to being the hub in a $2 million, cross-country network that counterfeited and distributed Microsoft Office software.
Mario Stacchini pleaded guilty in state court to attempted trademark counterfeiting.
He could get up to seven years in prison at sentencing Jan. 31.
Associates in Ohio, California, Pennsylvania and Illinois shipped the goods, with phony packaging, to Stacchini, who then sold the products to customers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere abroad, prosecutors said.
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