{"id":10706,"date":"2026-05-17T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/episode-415-dojs-massive-550-million-tariff-evasion-settlement-the-volkov-law-group\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:38:06","slug":"episode-415-dojs-massive-550-million-tariff-evasion-settlement-the-volkov-law-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/episode-415-dojs-massive-550-million-tariff-evasion-settlement-the-volkov-law-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 415: DOJ\u2019s Massive $550 Million Tariff Evasion Settlement | The Volkov Law Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s $549.5 million False Claims Act settlement with Perfectus Aluminum marks one of the largest customs fraud recoveries in recent years and signals an aggressive new era of tariff enforcement. In this episode, Michael Volkov examines DOJ\u2019s expanding use of the False Claims Act to pursue alleged tariff circumvention schemes, the growing role of whistleblowers in customs enforcement, and the increasing overlap between trade compliance, national security, sanctions, and supply chain risk management. Michael also<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumShowLink()\">  See\u00a0more\u00a0+<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"vidSummary\">The Department of Justice\u2019s $549.5 million False Claims Act settlement with Perfectus Aluminum marks one of the largest customs fraud recoveries in recent years and signals an aggressive new era of tariff enforcement. In this episode, Michael Volkov examines DOJ\u2019s expanding use of the False Claims Act to pursue alleged tariff circumvention schemes, the growing role of whistleblowers in customs enforcement, and the increasing overlap between trade compliance, national security, sanctions, and supply chain risk management. Michael also discusses the key compliance lessons for importers, manufacturers, and multinational companies facing heightened scrutiny of tariff classifications, country-of-origin determinations, and global sourcing practices.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumHideLink()\">  See\u00a0less\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s $549.5 million False Claims Act settlement with Perfectus Aluminum marks one of the largest customs fraud recoveries in recent years and signals an aggressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7527,5305,6247,1126,153,2071,1159,399,5394,7768],"class_list":["post-10706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-dojs","tag-episode","tag-evasion","tag-group","tag-law","tag-massive","tag-million","tag-settlement","tag-tariff","tag-volkov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}