Yesterday, Nassau DA Anne T. Donnelly joined together with Nassau County Police Department Commissioner Patrick Ryder, AHRC Nassau CEO Stanfort Perry, and other partners to announce the completion of a six-year long effort to donate nearly 100,000 seized counterfeit jackets to more than 160 charities, nonprofits, and volunteer groups across Long Island and the greater New York area.
The final 1,000 jackets were donated at the event, including 600 jackets that were donated to St. Finbar Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, which will be sent to Ukraine as part of humanitarian relief efforts.
DA Donnelly said: "After three seizures netted us nearly 100,000 counterfeit jackets, we were faced with a tough choice: send them to the incinerator to be destroyed like most counterfeit goods, or get creative, and find a way to put these jackets into the hands of people who needed them most. With the help of our extraordinary partners, the jackets were given new life and donated to charities across Long Island and New York. Now, at the end of this journey with one final donation, we are glad to be able to provide some small measure of relief to the people of Ukraine.”
AHRC Nassau, using two embroidery machines seized during multiple operations and donated to the organization, trained clients to remove counterfeit labels and embroider over existing fraudulent labels on more than 13,000 of the jackets to make them suitable for charitable donation.
All jackets were also safety tested before donation to charitable organizations.
Learn more about our jacket project here: https://bit.ly/37KDSqw
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