Attorney General Bondi and Secretary Kennedy Announce Nationwide Seizures of Illicit Vaping Products
September 10, 2025 · The Justice Department · 0:42:53
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What happened
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros introduced Attorney General Pam Bondi in Chicago for what he called a historic seizure of illegal vaping products, recounting Bondi’s record as a Hillsborough County prosecutor and as Florida’s first woman elected attorney general, and saying President Trump selected her as a fierce advocate who would be tough on crime and protect children and the elderly, as he stated it. Attorney General Bondi is not among the officials tracked by name on this site; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who appears in the event, is the tracked official tagged.
Bondi said the Department of Justice has partnered with HHS, FDA, the U.S. Marshals and ATF, and that in late July Secretary Kennedy and Dr. McCarthy came to meet with her at the Justice Department and expressed concerns about Chinese vapes in the country, which she said many thought were legal but are not, as she stated it. She said that earlier that day, pursuant to search warrants issued by federal courts, U.S. Marshals began seizing hundreds of thousands of units of illicit vaping products at locations across the United States, including at Midwest Goods in the Chicago suburb where the announcement was held, according to her remarks.
Bondi said many of the products were smuggled in from China, circumventing regulations, and often contain undisclosed or untested chemicals that fail to meet FDA safety standards, as she stated it. The announcement pairs the Justice Department’s seizure authority with HHS and FDA’s product-safety role, which is why this page sits on the Health & MAHA hub.
Why it matters
The announcement is the public launch of a joint Justice-HHS enforcement line on illicit vaping products — federal seizures under court warrants, aimed, as Bondi stated it, at Chinese-smuggled products she said many sellers wrongly believed were legal.
Sources: The Justice Department, “Attorney General Bondi, HHS Secretary Kennedy Announce Seizure of Illicit Vaping Products”, 2025-09-10 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-10). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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