• Yesterday, Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com issued a press release regarding a recent speaking engagement done by Sam Antar. The Utah Attorney General’s office invited Sam to speak at their annual White Collar Fraud Conference on October 31. As with all […]

  • The regular readers of this blog are familiar with the issues at Overstock.com. The company can’t turn a profit to save its life, but CEO Patrick Byrne blames that on short sellers. The fact is that the financial statements have […]

  • In today’s post entitled Advice from a convicted felon: How the government investigates and prosecutes white collar criminal cases, Sam Antar gives us an education on how the federal government goes after the “fish” in a criminal case. And Sam […]

  • This is Sam Antar’s final installment in his three part series on all the “unusual” things showing up in Overstock’s financial statements. Unusual because they don’t align with multiple statements made by CEO Patrick Byrne in a variety of interviews […]

  • Today on the White Collar Fraud Blog, Sam Antar has the first part of a three part series on the inventory numbers at Overstock.com. It’s curious how Overstock’s inventory numbers always seem to create more questions than they answer. Sam […]

  • Herb Greenbergs thinks the former CEO of Comverse Technology, Jacob “Kobi” Alexander can learn a thing or two from Eddie Antar. Alexandar fled the United States with his family, going to Namibia, allegedly with over $57 million transferred out of […]

  • Decades after their crimes, Crazy Eddie and Sam E. Antar meet face to face. The two were a the helm of a huge fraud called Crazy Eddie’s. The story will be on Business Nation on June 27. Here’s the promo […]

  • Quite a lot happened this past week at Overstock.com. Is the house of cards finally falling down? Some think so. Gary Weiss even wrote a blog post entitled “Will the Last Overstock.com Director Please Turn Out the Lights.” And Sam […]

  • It has been suggested that discussing the inventory issues at Overstock.com is a waste of time. Surely there is more interesting stuff going on. like Sith Lords and such. So I’ll explain why it’s so important. Inventory is a financial […]

  • It seems that the executives of online retailer Overtsock.com may want to invest in a good dictionary. According to the transcript of today’s earnings call, they said: