Joseph T. McNally
"Federal charges of 9 defendants... working with china"
"$200 Million worth of counterfeit goods... into the ports in
LA and
long beach ports"
"busiest ports in the Western Hemisphere"
"This is critical for our boarder security, and ultimately our national security"
"wide ranging scheme to circumvent inspections"
"involving logistics companies, warehouse owners, corrupt truckers"
"defy US customs laws"
"8 of the 9 have been arrested"
"1 is a fugitive (the leader), believed to be in China"
"counterfeit goods, chemicals"
"Laws state shipping containers should be sealed with a security number"
"the network would learn the numbers in advance, then print fake seals, circumventing the process"
"instead of sending the containers to secondary inspectors, truckers would send them to another site to take out contraband, then apply the new counterfeit label"
"Truckers would be paid 10x or more to do this"
"Chinese co-conspirators would send these fake seals, around 50 of which were found by law enforcement"
"chemicals including
R22"
"Charged defendants with smuggling, using counterfeit seals, conspiracy"
"Up to 20 years in federal prison"
"Smugglers... rob the US tax payers of Millions of dollars"
