On March 11, 2026, the Department of Justice announced the latest in a long line of Medicare Advantage fraud settlements against MAOs—this time with Aetna, which agreed to pay $117.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving risk adjustment practices. This case is part of DOJ’s ongoing focus on Medicare Advantage “upcoding”—that is, making […]
The UK government, following the lead of successful US programs, has launched a new whistleblower reward initiative in His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK’s tax authority, designed to encourage individuals to report serious tax fraud, including those involving wealthy high-net-worth individuals, large corporations and offshore or avoidance schemes. This program, announced on November […]
On November 21, 2025, the DOJ announced that Dr. Ameet Vohra and his company, Vohra Wound Physicians Management, one of the nation's largest providers of specialty wound care for patients in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities, have agreed to pay $45 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false and improper claims to Medicare. […]
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 […]
