With the former CEO of naked short selling conspiracy theory poster child Richard Altomare locked up, the group Gary Weiss calls the baloney brigade is badly in need of a new commander in crap.
Well it looks like they can forget about Biovail Corporation (NASDAQ: BVF). Fortune's Roddy Boyd reports that, a couple months after the company settled an SEC complaint for $10 million, "The big Canadian drug company agreed Friday to plead guilty to U.S. kickback and conspiracy charges ... Biovail and a New Jersey-based subsidiary will pay a $24.6 million fine to avoid a court case that could have cost them future business with federal agencies."
Gradient Analytics -- which had published negative research about Biovail and head cry baby Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) and was subsequently sued by both companies -- appears to have been right on the money in its criticisms of Biovail.
Moral of story: when a company starts suing people and lashing out at its critics, sell the stock. That philosophy would have saved people a ton of money on Biovail.
Biovail: another naked short selling poster child exposed
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