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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- May 26, 2017

Posted  May 26, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Contactless Payment Fraud Soars to £7m — Almost £7m was taken in 2016, compared to £2.8m in 2015, according to Financial Fraud Action UK. In the same period, contactless spending rose from £7.75bn to £25.2bn.

A judge recently slammed the technology, which does not require a PIN, for making life “too easy” for criminals during the sentencing of a fraudster in Devon. BBC

The Dr. Christopher Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 Passes U.S. Senate — Nearly a year ago, in the heat of a political campaign, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s bid to push through a bill to protect federal whistleblowers from retaliation hit a road block. Johnson’s bill passed the Senate Thursday via unanimous consent and goes on to the U.S. House of Representatives. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Eyeglass Vendor, Imprisoned for Terrorizing Consumers, Is Accused of Fraud — Vitaly Borker served a three-and-a-half-year stint in prison for threatening to stalk, maim and murder customers of his online eyeglass store, DecorMyEyes. But the court-ordered timeout, it seems, did little to convince him to take a new approach to sales. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday that Mr. Borker had been arrested and charged with wire and mail fraud while running OpticsFast.com, an eyewear site that authorities said hassled consumers mercilessly. NY Times