Acquisition by Usana Health Sciences gets them into China (legally, this time)
A few years ago, I was involved in an investigation of multi-level marketing company (MLM) Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA). One of the allegations that came out during that investigation was that Usana was illegally conducting business in China. China has strict laws against multi-level marketing, making it impossible for the company to do business there [...]
MonaVie lawyers are again threatening critics
These stories never get old. People criticize multi-level marketing in general, and particular MLMs specifically, and the lawyers come running. They cry that the bloggers are saying bad things about their companies, and that can’t be allowed to happen. Mona Vie doesn’t want you to know that their distributors are losing money left and right [...]
Questions raised about the figures reported in USANA’s SEC filings
USANA Watchdog just posted an article this morning which questions the active associate count of USANA Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) and whether there is illegal recruiting of associates in China. Watchdog’s analysis of the numbers found some very curious things: Associates in Hong Kong have increased by 300% in the last three years, when the rest [...]
Usana Health Sciences knows it products are being sold illegally in China
Almost thre years ago, Barry Minkow and Fraud Discovery Institute released a report on Usana Health Sciences (NSDAQ:USNA), listing ten red flags of fraud he and his team (which included me) uncovered about the company. The report criticized the company’s business model, essentially calling it a pyramid scheme in which recruiting is the focus (rather [...]
Does this describe your MLM?
Kevin Thompson hires himself out to multi-level marketing companies to give them legal counsel. Supposedly he knows his way around the legality of MLMs, just like my buddy Gerry Nehra supposedly does. So I was perusing Kevin’s website and came across this interesting diatribe about what separates “legitimate” MLMs from illegal pyramid schemes. I’ve written [...]
Usana Health Sciences misrepresenting distributor earnings
written by: terminatedramp USANA publishes a distributor average earnings chart to be used to recruit new distributors into their business opportunity. See the following USANA website that provides their earnings chart: http://www.usana.com/dotCom/opportunity/payplan/index. Quoted from their website is the following:
USANA’s sneaky disclosure
In the Usanan Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) most recent 10-Q filed with the SEC, the company makes reference to restated financial statements:
Selling your soul to Usana Health Sciences for $27,000 a year
If you were going to join a multi-level marketing company like Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA), what would your goal be? Would you aspire to be one of their million dollar earners? That sounds awfully prestigious, doesn’t it? Well check out this excerpt from a recent press release by the company, and then catch my comments [...]
Wondering why frauds at public companies aren’t being pursued by the Feds?
Consumers are often left wondering why the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t heavily pursue allegations of fraud against public companies like Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA), Herbalife (NYSE:HLF), and the like. I’ve always said the answer is simple: There are not enough resources devoted to investigating and prosecuting fraud in public companies. Executives are [...]
