Its existence came to public notice just when, after a quarter-century of intermittent activity on the Labour back benches, Mr Robinson had become a Treasury minister in Tony Blair's new government, and not long after he, of all ministers, had been put in charge of a government effort to winkle out offshore tax havens.
"Despite being on notice that this activity was occurring, UPS did not implement procedures to close the shipping accounts of Internet, " the DOJ said in a prepared statement.