CHICAGO (WAND) - Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi were in the Chicago area Wednesday, announcing joint seizure operations of illicit vape sales.
The move comes as the White House has been talking about the military into the city.
NBC Chicago reports the operation, by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Food and Drug Administration, was executed across six states Wednesday morning and targeted five distributors and nine retailers with civil enforcement action.
Bondi and Kennedy were both at the site of the largest seizure in Bensenville, Ill., where 600,000 units of illegal product was seized.
The Department of Justice targeted the distributors and retailers to stop alleged distributions of certain vaping prod