The BizOp News

A heavily redacted page from the original lawsuit.

Barry Minkow has apparently given up pursuing USANA over its business model.

According to a press release:

"Barry Minkow and the Fraud Discovery Institute (FDI) today announced the settlement of their lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the District of Utah.

USANA has agreed to withdraw its lawsuit and Mr. Minkow and the FDI have agreed that they will not trade in USANA's stock in the future, will remove information regarding USANA within their control from the internet, and will not publish any further statements about USANA.

All outstanding issues have now been resolved to the parties' satisfaction, and USANA and FDI look forward to putting this litigation behind them and moving forward with their respective missions.

Barry Minkow stated: "For us this was a business decision. Considering the size of the Fraud Discovery Institute, we had to make an allocation of resources and we decided that rather than continuing a lawsuit we would devote our efforts to our primary mission - the investigation and uncovering of fraud.

We look forward to continuing that mission with vigor."

Sure enough, at the FDI website there is no mention of the problems with USANA.

Does this reduce the credibility of Barry Minkow?

Or do all such consumer fraud sites have to make this sort of decision?

Hard to see this as anything but the purchasing of silence - wonder what will happen in the Herbal Life case.

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