{"id":759,"date":"2007-06-13T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/06\/13\/usanas-cpa-explanation-doesnt-wash\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:43:18","slug":"usanas-cpa-explanation-doesnt-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/usanas-cpa-explanation-doesnt-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Usana&#8217;s CPA explanation doesn&#8217;t wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why Usana&#8217;s explanation of the non-existent CPA licenses for two board members described in SEC filings as &#8220;Certified Public Accountants&#8221; does not wash:<\/p>\n<p>1. The law in Utah is clear. They cannot refer to themselves as Certified Public Accountants without licenses, which is exactly what they did.<\/p>\n<p>2. The listing of the officers as Certified Public Accountants was meant to infer credibility to these two men. The CPA designation is a credential neither possessed, yet Usana was trying to gain credibility by falsely listing that credential.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but Usana&#8217;s pathetic excuse for the false information in the SEC filings is just that&#8230; pathetic. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/usana\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud+discovery+institute\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/barry+minkow\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why Usana&#8217;s explanation of the non-existent CPA licenses for two board members described in SEC filings as &#8220;Certified Public Accountants&#8221; does not wash: 1. The law in Utah is clear. They cannot refer to themselves as Certified Public Accountants [&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":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}