The recent court order granting the CFTC summary judgment in its case against Sam Ikkurty, Jafia, LLC, Ikkurty Capital, LLC, Rose City Income Fund II, and Seneca Ventures, LLC has significant implications for the regulation of cryptocurrencies. Judge Mary Rowland of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois confirmed that Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]

Our client’s False Claims Act case against luxury womenswear retailer Alexis LLC, which settled last week for $7.6 million, has been featured in numerous articles.  The various press reports highlighted the four different ways in which Alexis LLC is alleged to have evaded payment of its fair share of its customs duties owed to the […]

Whistleblower Partners’ attorneys Mary Inman, Ari Yampolsky and Liz Soltan were featured in recent articles and podcasts about the U.S. Department of Justice’s launch on August 1, 2024 of its new DOJ Corporate Whistleblower Program. Dylan Tokar of the Wall Street Journal talked to Ari Yampolsky who described the new program as a welcome development […]

Alexis LLC (“Alexis”), a company that imports high-end womenswear from China, agreed to pay a $7.6M settlement to resolve allegations originally raised in a False Claims Act complaint filed by Whistleblower Partners attorneys and our whistleblower client.  The settlement resolves allegations, as articulated in the Government’s Complaint-in-Intervention, that Alexis violated the False Claims Act by […]

ALLEGED UNDERVALUATION AND MISCLASSIFICATION OF WOMENSWEAR REPOERTED TO CBP