Hey, What About the Wedding?

Agents seized $700,000 in fake U.S. postage stamps and blue jeans worth several hundred thousand dollars, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said, in a report on AOL News today. They also got 42 million in viagra, meth amphetamine, and fake cigarettes. Eight of those charged were arrested on their way to the fake wedding, called for 2 p.m. Sunday, off the Jersey coast. Operation Royal Charm was named for the yacht.

The affair was seven months in the making, and the bride and groom were actually undercover FBI agents who worked with the accused smugglers for several years, said Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

“Invitations were sent out, a date was given and RSVPs were received from different points around the world,” Christie said at a Justice Department news conference.

“One guest even brought a pair of gold Presidential Rolex watches,” New Jersey FBI Special Agent in Charge Leslie G. Wiser Jr. told reporters in Newark.

They were assured transportation would be provided to the yacht. They were taken into custody instead. Some of the men arrested Sunday appeared in U.S. District Court in Camden, New Jersey, on Monday in clothes that looked appropriate for a wedding.

The containers carried phony manifests identifying the goods inside as toys, rattan furniture and other items, Richter said.