{"id":1595,"date":"2008-06-19T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2012-01-02T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:46:46","slug":"lie-about-your-credentials-win-cfo-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/lie-about-your-credentials-win-cfo-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lie About Your Credentials, Win CFO of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Business magazine should be ashamed of itself. Its first ever &#8220;CFO of the Year&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/080619\/20080619006161.html?.v=1\">award went to Gil Fuller<\/a>, the CFO of Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/06\/11\/is-cfo-gil-fuller-of-usana-health-sciences-breaking-the-law\/\">lied about being a CPA<\/a>. The lies were repeated over and over in SEC filings until Barry Minkow and Fraud Discovery Institute revealed that in fact, Fuller was not a licensed CPA as he had represented.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the award were reported in a Usana press release:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Utah Business<\/em> stated that CFO honorees work as a partner with a company&#8217;s chief executive officer to guide the company through financial storms and sunny days. The publication sought to recognize individuals who have truly risen to the task as financial stewards. <em>Utah Business<\/em> recognized 24 finalists at the banquet and awarded a top executive from each of eight categories with a CFO of the Year award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the criteria used during judging did not include ethics, integrity, or honesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Business magazine should be ashamed of itself. Its first ever &#8220;CFO of the Year&#8221; award went to Gil Fuller, the CFO of Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) who lied about being a CPA. The lies were repeated over and over [&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":[827,184],"tags":[1490,1100,1427,1178,1838,1837,51,1836],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-companies","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","tag-cfo-of-the-year","tag-degree-fraud","tag-falsified-credentials","tag-gil-fuller","tag-gil-fuller-fraud","tag-gil-fuller-lies","tag-usana","tag-usana-halth-sciences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}