Tonight, staggering images of a billion dollar bust, one that federal authorities are calling the largest seizure of counterfeit goods in US history. Inside multiple storage units rated by Homeland Security and the NYPD, cluttered shelves packed with nearly 220,000 knockoff purses, clothes, and accessories.

It hurts people and it's not innocent.

The fake bags, ripoffs of high-end brands including Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Gucci, and Mark Jacobs. This bag, a knockoff of a Christian Dior tote bag, sells for more than $3,000. Nypd's Commissioner, Edward Kaban, saying in a press release, quote, The trafficking of counterfeit goods is anything but a victimless crime because it harms legitimate businesses, governments, and consumers.

It's a dangerous business. There's some dangerous people involved in it. To go down there and buy these goods, it's not victimless. You can become.

A victim. Two people, 38-year-old Adama So and 48-year-old Abdulah Jala are accused of running the black market business out of this storage facility this year, from January to October. The unsealed indictments show they're each charged with trafficking and counterfeit goods, which can carry up to 10 years in prison. An attorney for so declined to comment, BBC News has not yet heard back from Jollah's attorney. Counterfeiting experts say they hope consumers think twice before buying any knock-off merchandise because they can't be sure where the money is going or how the products are being produced.

You hope that they would think twice of where that money is going. Also, fourth child labor. Some of these goods are made in the most squallid conditions I've been there in China, and they're made in these squallid conditions with sometimes little children working there. They're working 16, 18 hours a day.

That's terrible. Steven Rubble joins us now. Steve, this was a massive bust, more than a billion dollars, according to police, but only two suspects.

Yeah, that's the interesting part right now. The investigation, though, still ongoing. Going. They've not named any more suspects or potential suspects. But the expert we talked to saying that it seems logical that with that amount of money moving that many goods, you'd have to have more than just two people in the mix here. So possibly more suspects to come.

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