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Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement<br />
SECTION 1<br />
125<br />
United States Department of Justice, “Three Sentenced<br />
to Federal Prison for Forcing Labor and Distributing Pirated/<br />
Counterfeit CDs and DVDs,” (October 14, 2011), accessed from<br />
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/legacy/2012/03/15/lopezSent.pdf.<br />
126<br />
See Statement of Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Director, United<br />
States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cyber Division, Before<br />
the Senate Judiciary Committee, “ (June 22, 2011), accessed<br />
from https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/intellectual-property-law-enforcement-efforts.<br />
127<br />
United States Government Accountability Office, “GAO-16-<br />
236: Counterfeit Parts—DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and<br />
Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk,” (February 2016) at p.<br />
1, accessed from http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/675227.pdf;<br />
Report of the United States Committee on Armed Services,<br />
“Inquiry into Counterfeit Electronic Parts in the Department of<br />
Defense Supply Chain,” (May 21, 2012), accessed from http://<br />
www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Counterfeit-Electronic-Parts.pdf;<br />
see also Goldman David, “Fake tech<br />
gear has infiltrated the U.S. government,” (CNN.com: November<br />
8, 2012) (reporting that a “record number of tech products<br />
used by the U.S. military and dozens of other Federal agencies<br />
are fake. That opens up a myriad of national security risks, from<br />
dud missiles to short-circuiting airplane parts to cyberespionage”),<br />
accessed from http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html.<br />
128<br />
See, e.g., United States Government Accountability Office,<br />
“GAO-16-236: Counterfeit Parts—DOD Needs to Improve<br />
Reporting and Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk,”<br />
(February 2016) at p. 1, accessed from http://www.gao.gov/<br />
assets/680/675227.pdf.<br />
129<br />
United States Government Accountability Office, “GAO-16-<br />
236: Counterfeit Parts—DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and<br />
Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk,” (February 2016) at p.<br />
1, accessed from http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/675227.pdf.<br />
130<br />
United States Government Accountability Office, “GAO-16-<br />
236: Counterfeit Parts—DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and<br />
Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk,” (February 2016) at p.<br />
10, accessed from http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/675227.pdf.<br />
131<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
“Critical Infrastructure Sectors,” accessed from https://www.<br />
dhs.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors.<br />
132<br />
See The White House, “Strategy to Combat Transnational<br />
Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National<br />
Security,” (July 2011), accessed from https://www.whitehouse.<br />
gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf.<br />
133<br />
See INTERPOL, “Trafficking in Illicit Goods and Counterfeiting,”<br />
accessed from http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/<br />
Trafficking-in-illicit-goods-and-counterfeiting/Trafficking-in-illicit-goods-and-counterfeiting.<br />
134<br />
Statement of The Honorable Ronald K. Noble, Secretary<br />
General, INTERPOL, Before The Committee on International<br />
Relations, House of Representatives, “The Links Between<br />
Intellectual Property Crime And Terrorist Financing,” (July 16,<br />
2003) at pp.29-30, accessed from http://commdocs.house.<br />
gov/committees/intlrel/hfa88392.000/hfa88392_0f.htm. The<br />
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center has<br />
also noted that: “Terrorist supporters have used intellectual<br />
property crime as one method to raise funds. Central to this<br />
judgment is the distinction between terrorist supporters who<br />
merely provide funding and resources to a terrorist organization<br />
versus terrorist organization members who engage in the actual<br />
terrorist activities of violence.” (National Intellectual Property<br />
Rights Coordination Center, “Intellectual Property Rights Violations:<br />
A Report on Threats to United State Interests at Home<br />
and Abroad,” (November 2011) at p.40, accessed from https://<br />
www.iprcenter.gov/reports/ipr-center-reports/IPR%20Center%20<br />
Threat%20Report%20and%20Survey.pdf/.<br />
135<br />
See, e.g., The White House, “Strategy to Combat Transnational<br />
Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to<br />
National Security” (2011) at pp.3, 14, accessed from https://<br />
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf.<br />
136<br />
The White House, “Strategy to Combat Transnational<br />
Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National<br />
Security” (2011) at p.7, accessed from https://www.whitehouse.<br />
gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf.<br />
137<br />
See, e.g., United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, “The Illicit<br />
Trafficking of Counterfeit Goods and Transnational Organized<br />
Crime,” accessed from https://www.unodc.org/documents/<br />
counterfeit/FocusSheet/Counterfeit_focussheet_EN_HIRES.pdf;<br />
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute<br />
(UNICRI), “Counterfeit Medicines and Organized Crime” (2012)<br />
at p.90, accessed from http://www.unicri.it/topics/counterfeiting/<br />
medicines/report/Ctf_medicines_and_oc_advance_unedited2013.<br />
pdf; United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research<br />
Institute (UNICRI), “Counterfeiting: a global spread, a global<br />
threat” (2007), at pp.103-120, accessed from http://www.unicri.<br />
it/news/article/0712-3_counterfeiting_crt_foundation; United<br />
States Department of Justice, “Overview of The Law Enforcement<br />
Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime,” (April<br />
2008), pp. 4-5, 9 (discussing an Asian criminal organization that<br />
was smuggling counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals; a<br />
raid against the Italian organized crime group, the Camorra, in<br />
connection with the sale of counterfeit goods; and the ‘Ndrangheta<br />
crime syndicate’s involvement with counterfeit trade), accessed<br />
from https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-icitap/legacy/2015/04/23/04-23-08combat-intl-crime-overview.pdf.<br />
See also<br />
United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the<br />
Eastern District of New York, “Three Members Of International<br />
Organization Of Money Launderers For The Largest Drug Cartels<br />
Arrested” (September 10, 2015) (noting that “international organization<br />
of money launderers and drug trafficking organizations<br />
conspired to carryout trade-based money laundering activities …<br />
on behalf of drug trafficking organizations in Mexico and Colombia<br />
to fund purchases of counterfeit goods in China, which were<br />
then shipped to Colombia and elsewhere for resale.”) (Note: The<br />
charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations and<br />
the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven<br />
guilty), accessed from https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/<br />
three-members-international-organization-money-launderers-largest-drug-cartels-arrested;<br />
National Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Coordination Center, “Intellectual Property Rights Violations:<br />
A Report on Threats to United State Interests at Home and<br />
Abroad,” (November 2011) at pp.39-40, accessed from https://<br />
www.iprcenter.gov/reports/ipr-center-reports/IPR%20Center%20<br />
Threat%20Report%20and%20Survey.pdf/; Booth, William, “Drug<br />
Cartels Muscle In To Piracy Business” (The Washington Post: May<br />
29, 2011) (reporting that the Mexican Attorney General found<br />
that one large Mexican drug cartel may “generate as much as $2<br />
million a day through video piracy”), accessed from https://www.<br />
washingtonpost.com/world/americas/drug-cartels-muscle-in-topiracy-business/2011/05/28/AG93GLEH_story.html.<br />
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