A Chinese citizen who worked with his girlfriend to “return” 140 counterfeit iPads to Tri-Cities Target stores and others in the West has been sentenced in federal court.
Zhangbo Liang, 24, was sentenced Monday by Judge Rebecca Pennell in the Spokane U.S. Courthouse to one year incarceration.
He and his girlfriend, Linda You, obtained fraudulent refunds of $163,000 in a multi-state scheme to buy iPads and then return counterfeits repackaged in the original boxes to Target stores, including those in Kennewick, Richland and Yakima…