Virginia man sentenced for selling counterfeit GM equipment

A Virginia man has been sentenced to one year and one day behind bars for selling counterfeit General Motors diagnostic equipment that mechanics use to identify problems in motor vehicles.

Justin DeMatteo, 31, received more than $100,000 from sales of the inauthentic goods. Nearly 100 counterfeit GM items were sold by or seized from the defendant, prosecutors said, and the retail price of that number of authentic products would have been almost $400,000.