Nassau Man Sold Millions of Dollars of Counterfeit Nintendo Products Online: DA

MINEOLA, NY — A Lawrence man was arrested and charged with counterfeiting and conspiracy after reportedly selling hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Nintendo products and accessories on Amazon, prosecutors said.

The items were stored in an Island Park warehouse, officials said.

Isaac Lapidus, 34, was arraigned Wednesday on charges including first-degree trademark counterfeiting and fourth-degree conspiracy, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced.

He pleaded not guilty and was released to pre-trial services. He is due back in court on September 18. If convicted, Lapidus faces up to 15 years in prison.

According to the charges, Amazon and Nintendo referred a complaint for investigation to Nassau County District Attorney detective investigators after uncovering alleged counterfeit Nintendo products being sold through the online retailer’s ecommerce platform across five individual seller accounts: PandaVida Inc., Unibabe, ABC of product, this too shall pass, and Zuzu Cares 4 U (now listed as ArminStore on Amazon), Donnelly said.

Each of the accounts used the address 4217 Austin Boulevard in Island Park as a shipping or removal address to move merchandise to or from Amazon’s fulfillment centers, the DA's office said.

The sellers offered Nintendo Switch docking stations, devices used to connect the Nintendo Switch console to televisions, docking station Adapters, and Pokémon Go Plus accessories, which are used to support the Pokémon Go mobile game.

A review of the products offered through the various sellers by Nintendo revealed several inconsistencies with legitimate Nintendo products, including incorrect serial numbers, product codes, incorrect designs and incorrect Japanese language characters that confirmed the products were counterfeit, Donnelly said.

Based on Amazon sales records across the five seller accounts, between October 2018 and September 2025, more than 200,000 Nintendo Switch docking stations, 10,000 Switch dock adapters and approximately 15,705 counterfeit Pokémon Go Plus accessories were sold, for total gross sales of more than $2 million by the five seller accounts, prosecutors said.

Further investigation revealed that each of the five seller accounts was allegedly controlled or connected to Isaac Lapidus through the Island Park warehouse, Amazon accounts, bank account information, or phone numbers tied to the defendant, Donnelly said.

A search warrant executed on September 2 at the Island Park warehouse recovered 46 boxes of Nintendo Switch docking station and power adapter sets, 23 boxes of Nintendo Cool Baby HD video game sets, and 33 boxes of Nintendo Pokémon Plus Go accessories, the DA said. All the items were determined by Amazon to be counterfeit, prosecutors said.

"For years, this defendant allegedly hawked hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Nintendo accessories for popular consoles and games through several Amazon seller accounts he controlled and kept the phony merchandise in an Island Park warehouse for distribution to unsuspecting buyers. Despite consumer complaints about imitation products in their reviews, sales totaled into the millions of dollars," said Donnelly.

Lapidus is represented by attorney Michael Sosnick, who told Patch in a statement: "Mr. Lapidus strongly maintains his innocence. As his case progresses through the system, he expects to be fully exonerated."