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- Happy Birthday, Sith Lord: Patrick Byrne's Delusion Is Four Years Old
- Gary Weiss submits: Overstock.com's OSTK wacky CEO Patrick Byrne has been flacked to the news media by his two p.r. firms in recent days, giving a series of softball video interviews and expounding on his formula for "success"--i.e., years of unprofitable losses and occasional "profits" through accounting card tricks.I'm...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Overstock.com: More Roadmaps for Regulators to Ignore
- Gary Weiss submits: It's now becoming clear why, out of the blue, Overstock.com's OSTK ditsy CEO Patrick Byrne is on a cyberstalking frenzy, unleashing his hireling Judd Bagley on the usual suspects mainly me: Byrne is, as usual, cooking the books to manufacture phantom profits.It's all in an "Open...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Will the SEC Hand Patrick Byrne Yet Another 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card?
- Gary Weiss submits: I've used the expression "road map for regulators" at least twice in describing how white collar crime-fighter Sam Antar has exposed the phony accounting used by Overstock.com OSTK. Sam's latest post describes the latest sleight of hand CEO Patrick Byrne has used to juggle the numbers.Sam...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Overstock.com Finds a New Way to Waste Money
- Gary Weiss submits: Yesterday, I ran an item describing Overstock.com OSTK CEO Patrick Byrne's latest issuer retaliation gambit. Well folks, I just got an email from a p.r. person for Overstock. That was quick.Threatening? Angry? Slimy? Not at all. Why, they were so darn nice that I have an...
- External links 2009-07-24
- Patrick Byrne Teaches a Lesson in Issuer Retaliation
- Gary Weiss submits: I missed the Overstock.com OSTK conference call yesterday (I was washing my hair or feeding pigeons or sumthin'.) Well, what a major shame. The conference call transcript, published on Seeking Alpha yesterday, shows that Overstock.com's forever shameless CEO Patrick Byrne taught a graduate-level seminar in issuer...
- External links 2009-07-24
- Phantom Shares Plague Overstock.com
- Gary Weiss submits: In the past I've scoffed at notions that Overstock.com OSTK, a third-rate Internet retailer that bellyaches about "naked short selling," has been beset by sale of "phantom shares." Well, my bad. Appears that the reports are true, and I certainly hope that regulators investigate and take...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Eureka! The SEC Enforced Regulation G!
- Gary Weiss submits: Will wonders never cease? This isn't likely to get much notice, but it's pretty big news: the SEC actually enforced one of the most crucial regulations preventing public companies from cooking the books, known as Regulation G. The agency reached a settlement yesterday with SafeNet Inc. and...
- External links 2009-11-13
- Byrne: SEC Enforcement Division Takes Orders From Short-Sellers
- Gary Weiss submits: The White House isn't the only building in Washington with a hotline Patrick Byrne has a new conspiracy theory to explain why his corporate crime petri dish Overstock.com OSTK is under investigation by the SEC. Seems that short sellers, in addition to having a...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Patrick Byrne Fails to Celebrate New SEC Investigation of Overstock.com
- Gary Weiss submits: Vindication for Sam Antar, whom Overstock has tried to silence Patrick Byrne famously issued a thumb-your-nose press release to the SEC in 2006, when the company's records were subpoenaed in an SEC investigation of its accounting. Byrne said he "celebrated" the subpoena and...
- External links 2009-09-18
- More on Markopolos, Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street Journal
- Gary Weiss submits: Jason Linkins patiently combed through all the emails and other documentation released by Bernie Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos the other day, and the result is a definitive, blow-by-blow account of Markopolos's dealings with the Wall Street Journal in the Huffington Post.As I observed in an update...
- External links 2009-02-06
- The Wall Street Journal Blew Chance to Expose Madoff
- Gary Weiss submits: A bombshell is buried in Harry Markopolos' prepared testimony to a House panel today: he contacted the Wall Street Journal on the Bernie Madoff fraud three years ago, and the newspaper did nothing.It seems that the Journal missed an opportunity to achieve one of the...
- External links 2009-02-04
- Overstock.com Lifts the Corporate Veil on Issuer Retaliation
- Gary Weiss submits: In a previous post I described how Overstock.com's wacky CEO Patrick Byrne has gone to great lengths to distance himself from "Deep Capture," the equally wacky smear site that he established to attack his critics and advance stock market conspiracy theories. Overstock's board -- comatose as...
- External links 2009-02-04
- Overstock.com Now 'WellsFargostock.com'
- Gary Weiss submits: My favorite corporate fraud poster child, Overstock.com OSTK, is noted mainly for its juvenile, delusional CEO Patrick Byrne, its junk lawsuits against critics and shorts, and its inability to make money. You have to wonder, who would be dumb enough to loan this sleazy company money?Well,...
- External links 2009-01-09
- Overstock.com Corporate Fraud Update
- Gary Weiss submits: My favorite corporate sleazebags, the management of Overstock.com OSTK, are the subject of two excellent posts over the past few days by my fellow white color crime aficionados, reformed felon-turned antifraud crusader Sam Antar and forensic accountant Tracy Coenen. Overstock is a worthy subject for several...
- External links 2008-11-24
- More on the Overstock.com Spam Campaign
- Gary Weiss submits: The Overstock.com p.r. genius is producing more dividends for this slimy company. The website Microcap Speculator, also a target of the spam campaign I noted a few days ago, reacted in an annoyed post today. Two questions: by Gary Weiss
- External links 2008-11-19
- Stanford Financial's CFO Laura Pendergest-Holt: A Victim of Overzealous Regulators?
- Gary Weiss submits: Want the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up? If so, read about how ex-Overstock.com legal brain Brent Baker crowed to the Salt Lake Tribune about his poor, downtrodden, misunderstood client, Stanford Financial's CFO Laura Pendergest-Holt.Hold on to your barf bags, folks. The...
- External links 2009-05-21
- The Latest Naked Shorting Conspiracy Hoax
- Gary Weiss submits: As I've detailed in various blog posts, Overstock.com OSTK CEO Patrick Byrne spends gobs of his inherited wealth on behalf of his lifelong goal: investor impoverishment. He has cooked the books of his company, lied at investor conference calls, and hired a former Florida Republican go-fer...
- External links 2009-05-12
- The Reliable Unreliability of Overstock.com Financial Statements
- Gary Weiss submits: There are few certainties in this world: gravity, the speed of light, and, more obviously every quarter, the utter unreliability of Overstock.com OSTK financial statements.That became starkly evident yesterday, as white collar crime-fighter Sam Antar released the latest of a series of blog items showing that...
- External links 2009-05-05
- Overstock.com: Questionable Payment to Director/Consultant
- Gary Weiss submits: One of my favorite pastimes is reading humor websites, and one of the best is the Yahoo portal for Overstock.com OSTK press releases. Yesterday's installment was a real gem. Overstock had two bits of really bad news. One, yet another director resignation, was slathered over with...
- External links 2009-04-02
- Exposing the Overstock.com Swiftboat Campaign
- Gary Weiss submits: William K. Wolfrum, who exposed the Martin Eisenstadt hoax--a widely quoted personage on Sarah Pailin who did not exist--produced a detailed post today on a subject known well to readers of this blog, which is the ongoing smear campaign of Overstock.com's OSTK ethically-challenged CEO Patrick Byrne.Diane...
- External links 2009-03-11
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