Poppy Alexander

Practice Areas

Poppy represents whistleblowers in a variety of industries and under all the whistleblower programs, including the False Claims Act and the whistleblower programs administered by the Department of Treasury, Department of Justice, SEC, CFTC, IRS, and Department of Transportation. Poppy specializes in matters concerning cutting edge financial frauds, including money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters.

Publications

“AI Whistleblowers Can’t Carry the Burden of Regulating Industry,” Bloomberg Law (June 3, 2025)

“Be Wary of Trending TikTok Hacks—Especially Those Like the Chase Bank Glitch | Opinion,” Newsweek (September 6, 2024) with Hamsa Mahendranathan

“AI companies, meet the False Claims Act,” The Hill (June 10, 2024)

“Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Must Put Officers on Alert,” Law360 (January 8, 2024) (with Caleb Hayes-Deats) (paywall)

“Transnational Whistleblower Litigation,” Transnational Litigation Blog (October 11, 2023)

“How to Be a Crypto Whistleblower,” The Information (May 18, 2023) (paywall)

“FinCEN’s Whistleblower Program Sharpens Focus on Money Launderers,” Bloomberg Law (February 7, 2023) (with Caleb Hayes-Deats)

“Crypto Is Under Fire, But Is This Really the End for Its Wild West?,” Los Angeles Times (January 15, 2023) (with Rebecca Ackermann) (paywall)

“Expand This Whistleblower Program So Putin’s Cronies Can’t Evade Sanctions,” Fortune (March 4, 2022) (paywall)

“How America's Mistrust of Institutions Birthed the False Promises of the Crypto Craze,” Los Angeles Times (February 28, 2022) (with Rebecca Ackermann (paywall)

“Elon Musk Is Mocking Whistleblowers. Here's Why That's a Good Thing,” Newsweek (January 14, 2022) (with Mary Inman, Amber Scorah, and Ariella Steinhorn)

“SB 8 Reveals the Difference Between a Private Vigilante Law and a Private Attorney General Statute,” Harvard Law & Policy Review Blog (November 11, 2021) (with Chris McLamb)

“Enablers Act Will Do More to Stop Money Laundering Than Lawmakers Realize,” The Hill (October 14, 2021)

“SEC Examines Relationship Between Bad Books and Bribery Schemes,” New York Law Journal (August 11, 2020) (with Michael Ronickher)

“Reforming Private Prisons From the Inside,” The Tennessean (November 2, 2016) (with Anne Hayes Hartman)

“Congress' Band-Aid—It’s Up to Whistleblowers to Combat EB-5 Fraud,” The Epoch Times (October 12, 2016) (paywall)

“We Need Whistleblowers to Save Indian Workers From H-1B Visa Fraud,” The Huffington Post (October 12, 2016) (with Rosie Dawn Griffin)

“Calling All FCPA Whistleblowers—The SEC Wants You,” OffshoreAlert (October 6, 2016)

“Anatomy of an IRS Phone Scam,” Think Advisor (July 6, 2016) (with Gordon Schnell)

Career

Sarah (Poppy) Alexander has focused her practice on representing whistleblowers who report corporate fraud for the last decade. Poppy represents whistleblowers in a variety of industries and under all the whistleblower programs, including the False Claims Act and the whistleblower programs administered by the Department of Treasury, DOJ, SEC, CFTC, IRS, and Department of Transportation.

Poppy was actively involved in the creation and expansion of the FinCEN Whistleblower Program and continues to push the boundaries of financial fraud whistleblower work. Poppy specializes in matters concerning frauds such as money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters.

Poppy is currently the Vice Chair of the Board for the Impact Fund, a legal organization that supports public-interest litigators and litigation, and the Chair of the Financial Frauds Committee of the TAF Coalition.

Prior to her whistleblower practice, Poppy worked at a civil rights firm in San Francisco doing prisoner’s rights work and clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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