Searching Google News by date, I suspect the item was in reference to:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/July/04_enrd_515.htm

but I also discovered that an orchid grower shared the stage with Kerry:

http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=84361

John

R.Childers wrote:
I was watching Kerry's acceptance speech on CNN (or maybe FOX News) last
night and there was an article on the news "ticker" that runs under the
program that an Orchid dealer had been arrested for illegally importing and
endangered slipper Orchid. Does anyone know who or where it happened and
what the particular plant was?

Bob C.