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Katherine Quinn is an associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, where she practices in the White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement group.

Prior to joining Crowell, Katherine served as a law clerk for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She also previously worked as a law firm associate, focusing on commercial litigation and regulatory insurance matters.

Katherine received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was an articles editor for the Virginia Law & Business Review and a member of the Criminal Defense Clinic. She also competed as a finalist in UVA’s 2019 Lile Moot Court Competition. During her undergraduate studies, Katherine was an NCAA Division I student-athlete and captain of the soccer team.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force have upped the ante by an order of magnitude in the government’s pursuit of customs fraud. On May 1, 2026—only a few months after setting its previous record-high customs-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlement of $54.4 million with Ceratizit USA, LLC—the DOJ shattered that record with a $549.5 million settlement with Perfectus Aluminum Inc., its subsidiary Perfectus Aluminum Acquisitions LLC, and a set of four affiliated warehousing companies. The Perfectus settlement resolves allegations that the defendants violated the FCA by evading antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD). The settlement resolves three separate qui tam complaints filed by two individual relators and the Aluminum Extruders Council, an international industry association. Defendants were previously criminally convicted on charges related to the same scheme, and those convictions were affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in 2024.

Continue Reading (Not) All’s Weld That Ends Weld: Duty Evasion Scheme Ends in Historic $549.5M FCA Settlement

In this episode, Crowell’s hosts Agustin Orozco and Jason Crawford speak with Crowell attorneys Simeon Yerokun and Katherine Quinn about DOJ’s plan to aggressively use the FCA against illegal foreign trade practices. This episode includes discussion of common areas of FCA enforcement in cases involving allegations of customs fraud, and the hosts address steps that…

The US Department of Justice intends to “aggressively” enforce the False Claims Act, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Granston said in a speech at the Federal Bar Association’s annual qui tam conference earlier this year. He added that the agency particularly would focus on “illegal foreign trade practices” in conjunction with the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs.

Continue Reading Aggressive FCA Enforcement in Customs Calls for Compliance Review