Ari Yampolsky

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Ari Yampolsky, a partner at Whistleblower Partners, has substantial experience representing whistleblowers under every major whistleblower-reward law. Ari has successfully represented qui tam relators in lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act related to healthcare fraud, procurement fraud, and customs fraud. And he represents whistleblowers with claims under every reward program run by a federal agency, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Ari has helped his whistleblower clients obtain several record-breaking awards. These include:

  • A whistleblower case brought against numerous Wall Street banks involving a yearslong scheme to inflate municipal-bond rates in Illinois. In 2023, the case settled for $70 million, the largest recovery ever obtained under the False Claims Act of that state, and yielded the highest possible award for the whistleblower. 

  • The first-ever whistleblower award made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal auto-safety regulator. In 2021, Ari and his colleagues secured a $24.3 million reward for a former Hyundai safety engineer, whose information led the agency to impose combined penalties on Hyundai and Kia totaling $210 million. 

  • Ground-breaking False Claims Act lawsuits in California, Nevada, and other states, against four wireless carriers for failing to provide low-cost mobile phone services to state and local government. The cases resulted in a $138 million settlement and a 40 percent share for Ari’s whistleblower client.

  • In addition, Ari has also helped secure millions of dollars in awards for financial-fraud whistleblowers under the SEC’s program.

“Whistleblowers are engines of corporate accountability, taking enormous personal risks to serve the greater good. My job isn’t just to make sure a case succeeds, but also to protect my client's well-being.”

Previously, Ari was a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Branstetter Stranch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Kevin Hunter Sharp of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Ari graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where he was a member of the inaugural class. During law school, he served as a senior editor of the UC Irvine Law Review and represented hotel workers in wage-and-hour cases. Ari received his B.A. in Philosophy and English from Wesleyan University in 2000.

Between college and law school, Ari worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), helping long term-care employees organize unions and ensure government funds were used to support living-wage jobs.

In his free time, Ari cooks industrial quantities of food for his ravenous family and elusively searches for a quiet place in his home.