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11 May 2018, 7:22 am by admin
Barry Minkow (ZZZZ Best) In 1982, at the age of 15, Barry Minkow started a carpet cleaning company, named it ZZZZ Best, and ran the business from his parents’ garage. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 4:00 am by Tracy Coenen
Case Summary To summarize Medifast’s bogus case against  the defendants: In May 2009, Barry Minkow and his Fraud Discovery Institute released a report about Medifast Inc. and its multi-level marketing arm called Take Shape For Life (TSFL) In September 2009, I wrote an article on this blog about Medifast and TSFL, exposing the fraud behind multi-level marketing (MLM) In February 2010, Medifast sued Barry Minkow, Robert Fitzpatrick, me, and others with… [read post]
16 May 2012, 1:49 pm by Tracy Coenen
Barry Minkow, Fraud Discovery Institute, Robert FitzPatrick, Tracy Coenen, and Sequence Inc. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 9:06 am by Buce
   Or perhaps best of all, Barry Minkow, once "the Bill Gates of carpet cleaning," now back in prison after an interim tour as a man of the cloth. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 9:50 am by Beckie
Barry Minkow spent seven years in prison for his ZZZZ Best investment scam in the 1980s. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 11:03 am by Tracy Coenen
Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced that defendant Barry Minkow, 44, of San Diego, California, was sentenced today on [...] [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 10:45 am by Nathan Koppel
Bloomberg News Barry Minkow, shown in 2009 at the Community Bible Church in San Diego. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 5:24 pm
Barry Minkow, who, while still in high school, founded ZZZZ Best, a carpet cleaning and restoration company that turned out to be a massive Ponzi scheme, talks about one of the many ways he manipulated auditors. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 12:11 pm by Tracy Coenen
Barry Minkow and FDI initiated an investigation of the company in 2008, and the rest of us researched the company and contributed [...] [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Barry Minkow Charged with Conspiracy to Manipulate Common Stock of Fortune 500 Company Yesterday, Wifredo A. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 6:13 am by Ashby Jones
Barry knows what he’s doing,” Entin said. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 12:14 pm by Ashby Jones
Pitch Barry Minkow’s life story to anyone in Hollywood; We bet you’ll get laughed out of that pitch meeting. [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 9:13 pm by Tracy Coenen
Usana Health Sciences sued Barry Minkow to try to shut him up, and went down in flames. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:28 am by Tracy Coenen
(click to enlarge) Earlier this year, Medifast (NYSE: MED) filed a $270 million lawsuit against Barry Minkow, me, and several other defendants for what it has alleged are false statements and a conspiracy to damage the stock price of the company. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 4:11 pm by Sam E. Antar
Fraud Discovery Institute, co-founder, Barry Minkow has publicly disclosed that he has held short positions in InterOil and Medifast securities. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 6:32 pm by Sam E. Antar
To Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant Wayne Carnall: In my first Open Letter, I asked the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance to review Medifast's (NYSE: MED) revenue recognition policy to determine if it complies with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 13. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 3:34 am by Sam E. Antar
Fraud Discovery Institute, co-founder, Barry Minkow has publicly disclosed that he has held short positions in InterOil and Medifast securities. [read post]