Has anyone figured out how to setup counterfeit without your legal shops are beeing busted the the week they receive counterfeit? I tried it in several test games but i had no chance to establish counterfeit and my legal business get all shut down. If it is as it is the counterfeit press is a total useless feature, or did i overloock something?

Tell us a little more. You run illegal businesses behind a front so your legal business is not legal any more. To avoid high suspicion you have to run real legal businesses too.

Some basic reasons why it get shut down (fast).

Wrong front
Low skills of gangster who run the business
High generell suspicion (Crimes, unballanced income)
Opponent attacks --> higher suspicion

Legal shops using counterfeit will boost income, but yeah, they're exposed to police raids. If bribing the police/mayor doesnt help, you can always buy a warehouse stock up the counterfeit there and export it...

This happens to me too. I've come to conclusion counterfeit is a waste of time.

I thought it may be related to hostility of the area but then disproved my theory. Another possibility is the skill of the legal business owner or the press owner, but can't really back this up.

My brother seems to think it only happens when the cash spots in the business get full but you can't control that, even with lots of legal businesses the cash isn't distributed evenly.

The best theory I have is that it is a ratio between earnings and counterfeit within each business. The only downfall in my hypothesis is that loss making businesses should get shut down first and that isn't the case.

I'd love to see the problem fixed.

Hoods with 4 star or higher in organization, business and stealth will work for sure, also for stolen goods!

Saddly you cannot control wich businesses will receive counterfit money, so all the good business hoods with lower skill then 4 star cannot be used anymore for LEGAL businesses, or they will be shutdown very fast by the F.B.I.
Because of this you cannot buy/build as much businesses (LEGAL or ILLEGAL) as you can without the counterfits, wich makes the counterfits not very attractive in my opinion.
Counterfits only boost your LEGAL businesses by 30-40 %, that is not very much comparing it to plus 80 LEGAL businesses and plus 20 ILLIGAL businesses.

I also have a hood with 4.5 star organization, 5 star business and 3.5 star stealth running a LEGAL business for weeks and is not shutdown jet, maybe there are some more hoods like this that work as well.

I hope this helps ;)

Yes, we have to keep a close eye on that!