Eight people are facing charges for impersonating shipping companies and stealing millions of dollars’ worth of wholesale goods they sold on the black market across the country, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg announced the bust on Wednesday afternoon, calling it a coordinated effort among multiple agencies, including the NYPD and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, that spanned from October 2025 to April 2026.
The thieves allegedly coordinated with hackers and used phishing scams to impersonate real shipping companies, making bids to pick up their orders and showing up in trucks at logistics sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey with fake logos and registrations, Bragg said…