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Article: Man gets 4-year jail term for selling fake Soft Sheen. (businessman Tae S. Kim sentenced for selling fake hair-care products) (Brief Article)
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- Jet
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- March 21, 1994
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A Los Angeles businessman was sentenced recently to four years in a federal prison for selling fake Soft Sheen products.
Tae S. Kim will do prison time for selling counterfeit hair-care products that deprived Chicago-based Soft Sheen of $3 million in sales, said Amy Herzog, a company spokeswoman.
For six months in 1992, a number of stores purchased the products from Kim, although they knew he wasn't associated with the Chicago-based firm.
And even though ...