I teach law enforcement, professionals,and students about white collar crime and how to catch corporate miscreants. I do not teach ethics. Rather, I teach about the immorality and unethical behavior of white collar criminals from my own experience.
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To the Securities and Exchange Commission:On November 18, 2009, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) held conference call where CEO Patrick M. Byrne, company President Jonathan E...
Sam Antar Overstock.com gets NASDAQ letter.
Source: garyweiss.blogspot.com
At a time when the world seems to be falling apart, it's nice to know that there is a ray of sunshine: the always fascinating story of the corporate crime petri dish, Overstock.com.I honestly don't know what I'd do without Overstock. ...
Source: garyweiss.blogspot.com
I was being bombarded with word of the ongoing BusinessWeek slaughter, when I heard of the squabble between Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget.The question is whether it's kosher that Blodget (and other banned ...
Sam Antar Forensic accountant and author Tracy Coenen writes about the Overstock.com circus.
Source: www.sequenceinc.com
Sam Antar has often referred to Overstock.com and CEO Patrick Byrne as the gifts that keep on giving. And he sure is right! There is never a dull moment when it comes to wacky conspiracy theories and accounting woes that never end.
This evening Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) held a conference call to discuss certain financial reporting violations covered extensively in this blog, their firing of Grant Thornton as their auditors who agreed with me on the accounting issues now being investigated by the SEC, and their...
Sam Antar Investor Village stock market chat board in cahoots with corrupt public companies.
Source: garyweiss.blogspot.com
The Internet nickname for the Investor Village message board is "Investors Jonestown" because of its singleminded fealty to corporate management--enforced by kicking off corporate critics, as they did ...
Sam Antar The Overstock.com meltdown continues: Michelle Leder comments in her blog.
Source: www.footnoted.org
Sam Antar Satirist William Wolfrum blogs about the meltdown at Overstock.com.
Source: dagblog.com
Sassy, often left-leaning blogging, cutting across politics, business, sports, arts, stupid humor, smart humor, and whatever we want.
UpdatedIn a real dumb move, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), led by CEO Patrick Byrne, dismissed Grant Thornton as the company’s auditors and filed an unreviewed Q3 2009 10-Q because of material disagreements over certain accounting issues with its now fired auditors. ...
Sam Antar News Flash: Overstock.com's auditors side with me over accounting irregularities by company. In response, Overstock.com fires its auditors. I will blog about it after I leave Salt Lake City and arrive in NYC. Read Gary Weiss blog below:
Source: garyweiss.blogspot.com
People sometimes ask me about my fascination with Overstock.com. I've compared it to Marley, very much in jest of course. (Comparing such a nice dog to such awful people!) The serious answer is that this ...
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Tracy Coenen writes: "This made-up accounting treatment by Overstock is nothing new. Sam Antar has detailed many times over how the company manipulates the accounting rules and makes up their own rules depending on how they want their financial statements to look. The most notable examples of this were the cookie jar r...eserve they inappropriately set up related to customer refunds and a made-up definition of EBITDA."Read More
Source: www.sequenceinc.com
This week Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) notified the public that they wouldn’t file their third quarter 10-Q on time. The reason:
The Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against SafeNet Inc. (SNFT.UL) for backdating of stock options and violations of Regulation G which governs non-GAAP financial measures such as EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization)...
Sam Antar Is Overstock.com next?
Source: garyweiss.blogspot.com
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 today with SafeNet Inc. ...
Sam Antar In my guest article in Newsweek, I comment on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Source: 2010.newsweek.com
In the Bernie Madoff case, the Securities and Exchange Commission violated the “holy grail” of forensic accounting investigation. In too many instances, they trusted Madoff’s false wall of integrity, but did not verify the information he gave them. ...
Sam Antar A professor deabates a convicted felon on Sarbanes-Oxley.
Source: www.bizop.ca
"In a new series of blog posts over the next few months, [Sam Antar] will document why Sarbanes-Oxley should be strengthened with added reforms to protect the integrity of our capital markets. For starters, ...
