…or so Usana Health Sciences would have us believe. But don’t listen to them. No, no. Listen to a third party. An unbiased person who is quite knowledgeable about the reasons why auditors quit. Or not. It took me a […]
Would it be any surprise if Patrick Byrne was in violation of more regulations applicable to public companies??? Recently, Sam Antar sent emails to the Overstock.com Board of Directors, two audit committee members and Patrick Byrne himself. The emails reported […]
Fraud investigator Tracy Coenen has been named the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Hubbard Award, presented by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The Hubbard Award honors the Association’s late Regent Emeritus Thomas Hubbard, Ph.D., CFE, professor emeritus and former […]
From Usana’s 8-K: In connection with GT’s review of the Company’s unaudited financial statements that were included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for quarter ended March 31, 2007, the Audit Committee and GT disagreed as to the […]
Usana Health Sciences announced today that its auditors, Grant Thornton LLP, resigned the engagement. The press release said: During USANA’s fiscal years ended December 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, and the interim periods since December 30, 2006, there were […]
three sets of books and riley timmer posting john mackey from whole foods posts on message boards and so does riley timmer. he is one of us who has access to inside information on the company and he posts on […]
With the recent SEC investigation of the message board posting activities of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the spotlight has also been turned on Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com. Byrne is known to run around the internet, posting on a […]
Conrad Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc., was found guilty by a jury on 3 counts of mail [tag]fraud[/tag] and one count of [tag]obstruction of justice[/tag]. He was acquitted on 9 counts, which included [tag]racketeering[/tag] and [tag]wire fraud[/tag]. […]
Note to Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com: Read carefully please. Note to readers: Check out Gary Weiss’s comments on this situation. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an informal inquiry into the message […]
An article in New Zealand’s National Business Review sheds new light on the fight to bring down Usana Health Sciences. Since Barry Minkow and the Fraud Discovery Institute released the report on an extensive investigation of Usana, supporters of Usana […]