{"id":1105,"date":"2007-11-15T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/11\/15\/update-on-mark-shurtleffs-comments-from-sam-antars-blog\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:09:54","slug":"update-on-mark-shurtleffs-comments-from-sam-antars-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/update-on-mark-shurtleffs-comments-from-sam-antars-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Mark Shurtleff&#8217;s Comments From Sam Antar&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Antar <a href=\"http:\/\/whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/overstockcom-ceo-patrick-byrne.html\">posted this on his blog<\/a> today regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/11\/15\/yesterdays-press-release-by-overstockcom-on-sam-antar-and-the-utah-attorney-generals-office\/\">Mark Shurtleff&#8217;s letter about Sam<\/a>. He says he just received notification from blogger.com <strong>TODAY<\/strong> that there was a comment waiting for approval by him. I reiterate my earlier concern: Why didn&#8217;t Shurtleff contact him directly via phone or email?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Blog Update Note (11\/15\/07):<\/strong> I received the following request from Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to post a comment on my blog today. In a letter addressed to &#8220;to whom it may concern,&#8221; dated November 8, 2007, written by Mark Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, and released by Overstock.com through a press release on November 14, 2007, he claimed:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I tried to post this letter as a comment on Mr. Antar&#8217;s blog but Mr. Antar apparently refused to post it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, I just received Mr. Shurtleff&#8217;s comment <strong>today<\/strong> and posted it. Please note the date and time of the email.<\/p>\n<p>I will respond to Mark Shurlteff soon. In the mean time, keep speculating.<\/p>\n<p>From: mshurtleff [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:41 AM<\/p>\n<p>To: <a href=\"mailto:sam@whitecollarfraud.com\">sam@whitecollarfraud.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subject: [White Collar Fraud] New comment on Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne Continues to Dodge&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>mshurtleff has left a new comment on your post &#8220;Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne Continues to Dodge&#8230;&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>As Utah Attorney General, I am commenting on this post to clarify why Sam Antar was invited to speak at our 14th Annual White Collar Crime Conference, &lt;snip&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Antar posted this on his blog today regarding Mark Shurtleff&#8217;s letter about Sam. He says he just received notification from blogger.com TODAY that there was a comment waiting for approval by him. I reiterate my earlier concern: Why didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1129,987],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories","tag-mark-shurtleff","tag-sam-antar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}