Katrina Survivors Get Designer Labels, Sort of After all they've been through, Hurricane victims could probably care less that their new Tommy Hilfiger clothes are knockoffs. The Department of Homeland Security says clothes it seized -- because they're counterfeit -- are being donated to evacuees at the Astrodome. With a million seized goods in storage, officials are now combing their warehouses for other items that would help the Hurricane survivors.

Katrina Survivors Get Designer Labels, Sort of

Katrina Survivors Get Designer Labels, Sort of

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After all they've been through, Hurricane victims could probably care less that their new Tommy Hilfiger clothes are knockoffs. The Department of Homeland Security says clothes it seized — because they're counterfeit — are being donated to evacuees at the Astrodome. With a million seized goods in storage, officials are now combing their warehouses for other items that would help the Hurricane survivors.