To Mary Schapiro (Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission):The Securities and Exchange Commission must take immediate action to require Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) to properly restate all financial reports affected by its accounting errors and stop the company from issuing any more financial reports that violate Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). [read post]

"Journalists, bloggers, and others who dared to expose misdeeds by Overstock.com's unprincipled management team have faced a vicious retaliatory smear campaign orchestrated by CEO Patrick Byrne with the collusion of his paid shills: cyberstalker Judd Bagley, Mark Mitchell (former Columbia Journalism Review reporter who left CJR under mysterious circumstances), and message board trolls Dave Patch and Evren Karpak.Journalists Gary Weiss, Herb Greenberg, Joe Nocera, Floyd Norris, Roddy Boyd,… [read post]

So he lies about them and tries to change history, writing on a message board (bold added by me): Incidentally, in retrospect that this is where the cover-up formally began. [read post]