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“Were there bottles that were $100 or $200?” Howard asked Robin after she ordered three $800 bottles of wine at dinner. Vote for your favorite #SternShow moments like this one now:

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For nearly a decade the most trusted wine dealer in America was counterfeiting bottles in his kitchen sink and selling them to BILLIONAIRES for $50,000 each. > Rudy Kurniawan showed up on the fine wine scene in the early 2000s. A young Indonesian wearing Hermès, spending $1 MILLION a month at auction. > Nobody questioned where the money came from. The wine he poured was too good for that. > Kurniawan hosted private dinners for BILLIONAIRE collectors and opened impossibly rare Burgundy, the kind that trades for $50,000 a bottle. > Attenders were seduced and started buying privately. > His two auctions in 2006 made $35 MILLION combined. The largest single consignor wine sale in history. > Between dinners, the same man was at his kitchen sink mixing cheap Napa wine with old Burgundy. > Pouring the blend into empty bottles, printing fake labels on his laptop, dusting them to look aged and sealing them with authentic French wax. > The fraud was uncovered not by investigators but by Laurent Ponsot, a fourth generation French vintner who noticed his family's bottles being sold from vintages his family never produced. > When the FBI raided Kurniawan's home they found old bottles soaking in the sink, 30 to 50 open bottles with funnels and re-corkers on the counter and wax still dripping off freshly sealed bottles in the next room. > A 2013 conviction landed him 10 years in prison. > The court ordered him to repay $28.4 MILLION and forfeit another $20 MILLION. The government has only recovered about $2 MILLION. > Up to 10,000 of his fake bottles are still sitting in private cellars around the world, completely undetected. > Released in November 2020 after seven years, he was deported to Indonesia in April 2021. > Today he is reportedly making fake wines again as a party trick at exclusive Singapore dinners. BILLIONAIRES pay him to taste his fakes against the originals. > Most of them prefer the fakes. The rarest wines in the world were being made at a kitchen sink. The billionaires who paid for them never noticed the difference. They still don't.

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