E-Recycling Executive Sentenced to 21 Months Federal Custody
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Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rebecca S. Kanter (619) 546-7304 and C. Seth Askins (619) 546-6692 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - August 21, 2017 SAN DIEGO - Robert Erie, the former Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of E-World Recyclers, LLC, was sentenced today to 21 months custody for trafficking in counterfeit goods. His conviction relates to a contract he obtained to destroy counterfeit merchandise seized by the federal government. Instead of destroying or `e-recycling` the counterfeit goods as he was required to do (and as he certified), Erie instead diverted the counterfeit merchandise and trafficked in it for commercial advantage. E-World Recyclers was an electronic recycling service company...