By Jeffrey A. Newman China controls the American generic drug supply chain. For example, China is the key supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and as a result, the U.S. generic drug market is as much of a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese and Indian drug makers. According to...

April 1, 2025 Jeff Newman Law, representing whistleblowers, is pleased to announce that the United States has settled a False Claims Act case brought by two of its clients. Under the terms of the settlement, Walgreens Co. (Walgreens) will pay over $2.858 million to resolve...

Chinese companies have significantly increased their investments in Mexico, with foreign direct investment rising by 276% since the imposition of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. These investments are to gain duty-free access to the U.S. market under the USMCA agreement. There is evidence suggesting that some Chinese goods are shipped to Mexico,...

Posted on March 29, 2025 MORSECORP Inc. (MORSE), of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $4.6 million to resolve allegations that MORSE violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in its contracts with the Departments of the...

MORSECORP Inc. (MORSE), of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $4.6 million to resolve allegations that MORSE violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in its contracts with the Departments of the Army and Air Force.  The settlement resolves allegations that MORSE submitted false...

Jeffrey A. Newman An indictment has been unsealed charging Mohammad Jawaid Aziz, also known as Jawaid Aziz Siddiqui and Jay Siddiqui, 67, of Pakistan and Canada, with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws and violating U.S. export laws. Siddiqui was arrested on March...

Jeffrey A. Newman Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group is reportedly using both U.S.- and Chinese made chips to strengthen the efficiency of its  AI development. The company said it reduced costs for training AI models while limiting the reliance on a single supplier presently Nvidia. Although Ant Group is still using NVIDIA chips,...

Seoul Medical Group Inc. and its subsidiary Advanced Medical Management Inc., headquartered in California, have agreed to pay $58,740,000 and their former president and majority owner, Dr. Min Young Cha, has agreed to pay $1,760,000 for allegedly violating the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false diagnosis codes for two...

Jeffrey A. Newman When the U.S. placed new tariffs on Canada, Canada countered with tariffs on agriculture and livestock goods. Canada is the second largest source of US agriculture and livestock imports after Mexico, with total imports of US $12.94 billion in 2024. The top agriculture impoerts are canola,...

Jeffrey A. Newman China's quantum microsatellite Jinan-1 established the first quantum satellite link to South Africa;s universite for high security communication. The link was communicated over 12,900 kilometers via laser pulses . It encrypts daya by generating quantum keys in real time and is considered extremely difficult to de-encrypt,...