DOJ celebrates $1B trade fraud haul, boosted by tariff evasion case

Surrounded by pallets filled with seized drones and vapes inside a Bensenville warehouse Tuesday, Justice Department officials touted more than $1 billion in recoveries they attributed to a federal trade fraud task force created less than one year ago. But roughly half of that figure came from a recent settlement in a years-old case involving tariff evasion. The Justice Department’s Trade Fraud Task Force, launched last August, has surpassed $1 billion in civil and criminal recoveries,…