Ari Yampolsky

Publications

“Trump wants Medicare to pay for your Ozempic treatment. Taxpayers may foot the bill for billions in fraud,” Fortune (August 12, 2025) with Max Voldman

“DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Will Trip Over Its Ambitions,” Bloomberg Law (June 27, 2025) with David Ogden

“Harris’ Medicare at Home is a great idea for seniors, but it’s also a magnet for fraud,” McKnight's Home Care (October 21, 2024) with Max Voldman

“Uncle Sam is coming for Temu – and whistleblowers may be, too,” Fashion United (October 17, 2024)

“Feds must do more to protect whistleblowers from retaliation,” Detroit Free Press (March 12, 2024)

“CFPB Whistleblower Rule Key To Warding Off Bank Crises,” Law360 (May 23, 2023) with Eric Havian (paywall)

“How to use Colorado's New Whistleblower Statute,” The Pueblo Chieftain (July 3, 2022) with Mary Inman

“A Recent Case Could Undermine the Rules That Have Been Protecting Taxpayer Money From Fraud Since the Time of Lincoln,” Fortune (June 23, 2022) with Eric Havian and Mike Ronickher (paywall)

“What Maryland Can Learn From the IRS on the State’s New Tax Program,” The Washington Post (July 9, 2021) with Mike Ronickher (paywall)

“Another Missed Chance to Strengthen California’s False Claims Act,” Daily Journal (September 8, 2020) with Chris McLamb

“Trump’s Whistleblower Tactics are Straight Out of America’s Corrupt Corporate Playbook,” Quartz (November 8, 2019) with Mary Inman

“Trump Attacks Endanger Whistleblower Protections,” East Bay Times (October 31, 2019) with Mary Inman

“Celebrating Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act’s First Anniversary,” The Hill (December 6, 2016)

“Whistleblowing in Antitrust: Prospects and Pitfalls,” Compliance and Ethics Spotlight - American Bar Association Newsletter (Winter 2015)

Career

Ari Yampolsky is a founding partner of Whistleblower Partners LLP, where he represents whistleblowers under the False Claims Act and every major federal whistleblower-reward program, including those administered by the SEC, CFTC, IRS, FinCEN, and NHTSA. His practice focuses on helping whistleblowers expose fraud against government programs, financial markets, taxpayers, investors, and public-safety regulators.

Ari has helped whistleblower clients obtain record-breaking awards and recoveries across a wide range of matters. His work includes obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements with Wall Street banks accused of municipal-bond rate manipulation, amounting to some of the largest whistleblower recoveries ever obtained under several states’ False Claims Acts; the first-ever NHTSA whistleblower award, a $24.3 million award for a former Hyundai safety engineer whose information contributed to $210 million in penalties against Hyundai and Kia; and multi-state False Claims Act litigation against major wireless carriers that resulted in $138.7 million in recoveries and a 40 percent share for his whistleblower client.

Ari also represents whistleblowers in healthcare-fraud, securities, financial-fraud, procurement-fraud, customs-fraud, and auto-safety matters. His representative work includes securing several multi-million-dollar SEC whistleblower awards, recovering $8 million for taxpayers in a customs-duty fraud matter involving imported auto parts, and representing qui tam relators in healthcare, procurement, and state False Claims Act litigation.

Ari’s practice is informed by a client-centered approach to whistleblower representation. He works with insiders, executives, compliance professionals, and others who take substantial personal and professional risks to report misconduct. He focuses not only on building effective claims, but also on helping clients navigate the legal, strategic, and personal challenges that almost always accompany whistleblowing.

Before entering private practice, Ari clerked for Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Kevin Hunter Sharp of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before law school, he worked for the Service Employees International Union, helping long-term-care employees organize unions and ensure that public funds supported living-wage jobs.

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