Liz Soltan

Biography

Liz Soltan is an attorney at Whistleblower Partners. Her practice focuses on financial fraud, anti-money laundering, and sanctions evasion cases.

As a Skadden Fellow at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, Liz was part of a team representing Pennsylvania food stamp recipients in a case that resulted in the payment of $712 million in emergency food stamp benefits to 650,000 households during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Liz graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a student attorney and Wage and Hour Practice Group leader at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. As a law student, she successfully briefed and argued a workers’ rights case before the Supreme Judicial Court, the highest state court in Massachusetts. Liz completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude with a major in History and minor in Spanish.

Before law school, Liz taught English in Malaysia and worked as a paralegal at a legal nonprofit in Philadelphia.

Liz loves living in Brooklyn but will always be a Philadelphian at heart. She enjoys her fiction-only book club, visiting ruins, and hanging out with her husband, son, and their two cats, Alex Trebek and Vanna White.

Representative Cases

• United States ex rel. Taylor v. Kaiser Permanente, No. 3:21-cv-03894 (N.D. Cal.): Represents a whistleblower alleging that Kaiser Permanente defrauded the Medicare Advantage Program in a variety of ways, including exaggerating the sickliness of their covered population, improper coding practices, and improper practices concerning addenda. The case settled in 2026 for $581 million.

• United States ex rel. Poehling v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., No. 2:16-cv-08697 (C.D. Cal.): Medicare Advantage risk adjustment fraud case

• FinCEN sanctions violation case representing a foreign whistleblower regarding illegal sales to Russia

• SEC tip about misrepresentations to investors by a large tech company

• Customs fraud False Claims Act case

Publications

• “After decades of trying, Pa. needs to pass a state False Claims Act,” TribLIVE (March 17, 2026)

• “How to Prepare for an Increase in Customs Whistleblowers,” Anti-Corruption Report (March 11, 2026) with Chris McLamb (paywall)

• “The Need for Whistleblowers in Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement,” TAF Coalition (September 25, 2025)

• “State-Level Crypto Fraud Enforcement,” TAF Coalition (September 15, 2025)

• “Fashion Police: Types of fraud the US False Claims Act can target in the fashion industry,” Fashion United (November 27, 2024)

• “How to Earn a $3B Fine: TD Bank’s Masterclass in Compliance Failures,” Corporate Compliance Insights (November 11, 2024) with Chris McLamb

• “Keurig’s SEC Penalty Shows Company ESG Disclosures Still Matter,” Bloomberg Law (October 2, 2024)

• “Protecting the Whistleblower,” The False Claims Act and Government Contracts: The Intersection of Federal Government Contracts, Administrative Law, and Civil Fraud (Christine R. Couvillon and Shelley R. Slade eds., 2nd ed. 2023) (paywall)

• “Whistleblowers Deserve Remuneration — All of Them,” The Hill (June 12, 2023)

• “Deciphering Crypto Fraud,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition Blog: Fraud by the Numbers (September 20, 2022) (with Alex Cala)

• “Innovations in the Auto Industry Are Picking Up Speed. Can NHTSA’s Whistleblower Program Keep Up?,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition Blog: Fraud by the Numbers (September 18, 2022)

• “Essential Vocabulary for Financial Frauds: What Is a Pump and Dump Scheme?,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition Blog: Whistleblower 101 Series

• “A Tool to Help Level the Playing Field for Low-Income Tenants,” The Boston Globe (January 24, 2022) (with Gordon Schnell) (paywall)

Media Coverage

• Megan Zwiebel, “DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program Is Live: A Look at Forfeiture and Culpability,” Anti-Corruption Report (August 14,2024) with Mary Inman (paywall)

• Julie DiMauro, “DOJ launches whistleblower awards pilot program attorneys weigh in,” GRIP (August 5, 2024) with Mary Inman

Speaking Engagements

• “The False Claims Act and the Role Played by Coders,” ICD10MONITOR Podcast (August 11, 2026)

• “CWA Program / FinCEN,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition’s Financial Frauds Annual Conference (March 26, 2026) (moderator)

• “$556 million False Claims Settlement Rattles Many in Healthcare,” Monitor Mondays Podcast (January 26, 2026)

• “Customs Fraud and the FCA: Advanced Strategies and Emerging Issues,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition’s 25th Annual Conference (November 7, 2025) (panelist)

• “From Hotline to Headline: The DOJ’s Whistleblower Awards Reboot with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan | Ep. 273,” Great Women in Compliance Podcast (June 4, 2025) with Mary Inman

• False Claims Act Mock Trial Institute, American Bar Association (October 18, 2024)

• “The Current State of RA Litigation and Risk Areas for MA Plans, Physician Groups, Vendors and Downstream Entities,” Rise West 2024 (September 13, 2024) with Mary Inman

• “Understanding the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program: Implications and Compliance,” Compliance Palooza (September 4, 2024) with Mary Inman

Education

• Harvard Law School (2019)

• Cornell University (2012)

Honors & Awards

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship

• Skadden Fellowship