Customs Fraud Settlement in the News

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 […]

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Whistleblower Partners Featured in Articles and Podcasts on Corporate Whistleblower Award Pilot Program

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 […]

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Alexis LLC, Importer of Luxury Womenswear, Agrees to Pay $7.6M to Settle Allegations of Customs Duty Fraud

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 […]

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$7.6M Settlement with Importer Alexis LLC to Resolve Customs Fraud Allegations

ALLEGED UNDERVALUATION AND MISCLASSIFICATION OF WOMENSWEAR REPOERTED TO CBP

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Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Turn Up the Heat on Microsoft and Guidehouse

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 […]

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