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03/23/26 | Firm News
Partners David Kovel and Randall Fox to Speak at the Anti-Fraud Coalition’s 4th Annual Financial Fraud Conference
CHICAGO -- KM Co-Managing Partner David Kovel and Partner Randall Fox will speak at the Anti-Fraud Coalition’s 4th Annual Financial Fraud Conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois between March 25-27, 2026. Mr. Kovel will moderate a fireside chat with Benjamin Christenson, Acting Assistant Chief of the Chicago Office of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and Mr. Fox will sit on a panel discussing ethical issues raised in instances where multiple whistleblowers come forward with overlapping or differing information concerning the same matter.
The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition) is a public interest, non-profit organization dedicated to defending and empowering whistleblowers who expose fraud on the government and the financial markets. Through its extensive education and outreach efforts, the Coalition works to empower whistleblowers and ensure whistleblower attorneys are best able to guide them.
Mr. Kovel, a former commodities trader, has extensive experience representing plaintiffs in groundbreaking whistleblower, commodities, antitrust, securities, and corporate governance matters, including on appeal. His work in these areas, which often deals with fraud related to complex financial instruments, continues to set precedents both in terms of the law and size of settlements. Amongst other recent activities, in 2021, Mr. Kovel obtained the then-largest publicly announced single whistleblower award arising under the Dodd-Frank and IRS whistleblower programs on behalf of a Deutsche Bank whistleblower. He has also successfully worked on appeals reversing lower court rulings that dismissed a large number of banks in a case alleging manipulation of LIBOR and separately obtained a reversal on appeal in a case alleging manipulation of metal commodities by JP Morgan.
Mr. Fox was named the Whistleblower Lawyer of the Year for 2021 by The Anti-Fraud Coalition. Before representing whistleblowers, Mr. Fox served as the founding Bureau Chief of New York Attorney General’s Taxpayer Protection Bureau and, before that, was part of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. At the government, he played a key role in several groundbreaking False Claims Act cases, including leading the state’s investigation and intervention into a tax whistleblower case against cell phone giant Sprint Corporation, which later settled for $330 million, and he filed the States’ first government-initiated New York False Claims Act case, which recovered more than $61 million for the New York Medicaid program from pharmaceuticals giant Merck, which was alleged to have falsely marketed its drug Vioxx.
The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition) is a public interest, non-profit organization dedicated to defending and empowering whistleblowers who expose fraud on the government and the financial markets. Through its extensive education and outreach efforts, the Coalition works to empower whistleblowers and ensure whistleblower attorneys are best able to guide them.
Mr. Kovel, a former commodities trader, has extensive experience representing plaintiffs in groundbreaking whistleblower, commodities, antitrust, securities, and corporate governance matters, including on appeal. His work in these areas, which often deals with fraud related to complex financial instruments, continues to set precedents both in terms of the law and size of settlements. Amongst other recent activities, in 2021, Mr. Kovel obtained the then-largest publicly announced single whistleblower award arising under the Dodd-Frank and IRS whistleblower programs on behalf of a Deutsche Bank whistleblower. He has also successfully worked on appeals reversing lower court rulings that dismissed a large number of banks in a case alleging manipulation of LIBOR and separately obtained a reversal on appeal in a case alleging manipulation of metal commodities by JP Morgan.
Mr. Fox was named the Whistleblower Lawyer of the Year for 2021 by The Anti-Fraud Coalition. Before representing whistleblowers, Mr. Fox served as the founding Bureau Chief of New York Attorney General’s Taxpayer Protection Bureau and, before that, was part of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. At the government, he played a key role in several groundbreaking False Claims Act cases, including leading the state’s investigation and intervention into a tax whistleblower case against cell phone giant Sprint Corporation, which later settled for $330 million, and he filed the States’ first government-initiated New York False Claims Act case, which recovered more than $61 million for the New York Medicaid program from pharmaceuticals giant Merck, which was alleged to have falsely marketed its drug Vioxx.
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