Apple store replaced my under warranty phone with a blacklisted phone??

I took in my phone that was still under warranty for a defect and apple replaced it. At the time I was still under contract with AT&T. I had no problems with the phone until my contract was up and now suddenly started to have network problems. After some research I found that my phones imei was blacklisted. I then contacted AT&T and they were able to find it has been blacklisted dating back to the date of me being granted the new phone from Apple. The rep for AT&T and myself can't figure out how it worked up until now being it's been blacklisted for 4 months nor do we understand how a phone straight from the distributor is marked as stolen. Any advice will help at this point. Also, my warranty is up now so would this effect them fixing there mistake? TIA

Did you contact Apple since you got the phone fromt them? AT&T can't help you.  Apple has the IMEI of the phone they gave you. 

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