An accused wine swindler once tried to pawn off a counterfeit vintage 1929 French Burgundy — using a label made more than five decades later on a printer from Indonesia, an expert testified ...

Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan's home in March 2013, they ...

Koch had testified he spent $2.1 million buying 219 fake bottles of wine from Kurniawan and has since spent $25 million on his own “personal crusade” to rid the world of vino counterfeiters.

Mooney said materials found in Kurniawan’s home in a March 2012 raid that prosecutors say constituted a fake wine factory — including thousands of fake wine labels, empty bottles and bags of ...

Sometimes fake wines are obvious – clearly misspelled wine names, errors on the label and overt inconsistencies in the packaging. Downey says the Asian market is flooded with many types and ...

In the early morning hours of March 8, 2012, FBI agents burst into the southern California home of Rudy Kurniawan and uncovered a veritable wine forgery factory. Stacks of empty wine bottles sat ...

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The fake bottles were detected when eagle-eyed investigators discovered a latent trace on the back of a forged wine label in 2014 that led them to an individual who had been involved in another ...

We all know you can fake a watch or a handbag, but a wine?It’s a real thing, and much more widespread than you might imagine. Accurate estimates for the scale of the problem are hard to come by ...

Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan's home in March 2013, they ...