Medical Device Company Semler Scientific and its former distributor Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. recently reached a $37 million settlement with DOJ to resolve allegations raised by two whistleblowers that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA). Of the almost $37 million settlement, Semler will pay $29.7 million and Bard will pay $7.2 million. The qui […]

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 REPORTED TO CBP

Whistleblower watchdogs have proven to be essential in aiding the Government’s efforts to protect the public against cybersecurity breaches and vulnerabilities, as evidenced by two recent stories making news headlines.  First, whistleblower Elevation 33, LLC, an entity owned by a former Guidehouse employee, helped DOJ secure an $11.5M settlement, one of the largest cybersecurity settlements […]