• Cynthia Cooper’s book – Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower

    Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom whistleblower, is releasing her book in just few days. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower is her story. If it is anything like the speech I heard her give a few years ago at the […]

  • Overstock “Executive” Playing on the Internet Again

    I put the word executive in quotes because I don’t think anyone in their right mind really considers Judd Bagley an executive at Overstock.com (NASDQ: OSTK). He is the smearmeister for Patrick Byrne. They like to call him an investigative […]

  • SEC Drops Informal Investigation into Usana Health Sciences

    Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ: USNA) that it was closing its informal investigation into the company and taking no further action at this time. The pro-MLM camp has trumpeted this as a […]

  • Pyramid Scheme Alert Reflects on 2007

    Multi-level marketing will go down in history as one of the great frauds of our times. It deceptively wraps its harmful scam with the real needs and desires of people today – additional income, stay home with the family, independence, […]

  • Usana executives aren’t the only ones lying about their credentials

    See! Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ: USNA) CFO Gill Fuller was right when he said that everyone was lying about their credentials (including him!). The CEO of CellCyte (Public, OTC:CCYG) was recently busted for embellishing his resume, and the stockholders have […]

  • Government Officials in China investigating Usana

    FDI: China Government Issues Official Interrogation Notice on Usana Health Sciences Inc. Associate for Alleged Multi Level Marketing Activities in Nanning, the Capital City of the Guangxi Province in Mainland China FDI also releases several new Web sites that demonstrate […]

  • Usana’s attorney D.J. Poyfair and the Quixtar lawsuit

    I find this interesting… D.J. Poyfair is the attorney representing Usana Health Sciences to the death against Barry Minkow. He is also the attorney who is representing a group of 15 “independent business owners” against Amway (Quixtar). It appears as […]

  • Fortune on Sam Antar – Takes One to Know One

    The December 24 issue of Fortune magazine has an article on Sam E. Antar, the man most widely known as the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, a New York City electronics retailer that went down in flames in 1987 after […]

  • More on the Overstock.com Accounting Shenanigans

    This year, Patrick Byrne and company have taken a liking to discussing the Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) financials using non-GAAP measures. This means that they present certain financial figures that are not computed in accordance with GAAP (accounting rules). Who cares? […]

  • Herbalife’s Top 5 Misrepresentations

    Herbalife’s (NYSE:HLF) CEO Michael Johnson and CFO Richard Goudis contradict one another’s figures. Fraud Discovery Institute (FDI) issues the following statement about its review of Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) presentations by CEO Michael Johnson and CFO Richard Goudis. First, on November 7, […]