Whistleblower Partners is proud to announce that the IRS Whistleblower Program has awarded our client, along with two other whistleblowers, a maximum 30% reward in the total amount of $79 million for helping expose and shut down a longstanding and complex tax fraud. It is one of the largest awards in program history. Because of […]

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 […]

A federal court has dismissed most of the SEC’s complaint against software company SolarWinds for alleged securities laws violations related to the SUNBURST cyberattack. A sliver of the SEC’s case against SolarWinds and its CISO Timothy Brown survives: the allegations regarding misstatements in the company’s public Security Statement. Now, the SEC will have the opportunity […]

Our client’s False Claims Act case against international dialysis company DaVita, which settled last week for $34.5 million, has been featured in numerous articles. The various press reports highlighted different aspects of this complex antikickback case. Law360 quoted Whistleblower Partners attorneys Mike Ronickher and Hamsa Mahendranathan on why the kickback law exists, the financial incentives […]

Whistleblower Partners is proud to announce that the United States has settled our client’s False Claims Act case against international dialysis company DaVita for $34.5 million. The covered conduct concerns allegations of three novel kickback theories involving DaVita’s pharmacy business, its vascular access center business, and medical directorships at dialysis centers. After intervening and settling […]

Last week, Rite Aid, America’s third largest retail pharmacy after CVS and Walgreens, settled two massive whistleblower cases, agreeing to pay potentially upwards of $500 million to resolve disparate allegations of healthcare fraud. The Opioid Dispensing Settlement: Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice announce that Rite Aid will pay up to roughly $410 million to […]

Medicare spending on a subset of cardio procedures has skyrocketed and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has taken note, apparently now on the hunt for fraudsters. Certain minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures, such as atherectomies and angioplasties, are meant to alleviate blockages and improve blood flow when arteries are narrowed due to peripheral arterial […]