Fraud Discovery Institute Goes After Herbalife

[Mark Thors]

Barry Minkow's Fraud Discovery Institute is now going after
Herbalife.

http://www.frauddiscovery.net/

There's lots of links on their homepage to various documents
and reports they've compiled.

They raise a number of issues, the most serious allegation
being that several Herbalife products have been tested by an
FDA-registered lab, and they were found to have excessive
levels of lead.

[drceephd]

On May 22, 3:45=A0pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:
> Barry Minkow's Fraud Discovery Institute is now going after
> Herbalife.
>
> http://www.frauddiscovery.net/
>
> There's lots of links on their homepage to various documents
> and reports they've compiled.
>
> They raise a number of issues, the most serious allegation
> being that several Herbalife products have been tested by an
> FDA-registered lab, and they were found to have excessive
> levels of lead.

LOL, Fraud discovery institute??? LOL. You pharma shills never
miss a trick.

I guess a 2 trillion dollar business can afford to fund such
lunicy to help guarantee its continued profitability.

DrCee You cannot secure nor restore health with pus or
poisons.

[Myrl]

On May 22, 12:45=A0pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:
> Barry Minkow's Fraud Discovery Institute is now going after
> Herbalife.

One of the things that ought to be remembered is that the
Founder of Herbalife, Mark Hughes, died from "natural causes"
at age 44.

Here's an article about that:

Herbalife founder Hughes dies in Calif. home Reuters,
May 22, 2000

LOS ANGELES - Mark Hughes, the controversial 44-year-old
founder, chairman and chief executive of nutritional and diet
products maker Herbalife International Inc., was found dead in
his $25 million beachfront mansion, apparently of natural
causes, officials said Monday.

The handsome hard-driving businessman, who sparred with
regulators in the 1980s and who made an unsuccessful bid to
take his company private last month, was found dead in his
sleep by family members at about 11
a.m. Sunday (2 p.m. EDT) in his palatial Malibu home.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's deputies said
there were no signs of foul play and the Los Angeles County
Coroner's Office said an autopsy would be performed this week
to determine the cause of death.

A company spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said that
Hughes had spent his last days at home with family and
celebrated his grandmother's 84th birthday over the weekend.

``This comes as a sudden shock to his friends, relatives, and
associates who knew him well,'' the spokesman said.

``Those that have spent time around him saw no reason to
suspect anything that would have led to this tragedy,'' the
spokesman said.

In a statement, Herbalife officials said the company was
''deeply saddened'' and added that they wanted to reassure
employees, distributors, customers, shareholders and vendors,
that plans were under way to ensure that the company continued
with the spirit and vitality of the founder's vision.

Hughes founded the Los Angeles-based maker of weight-loss and
nutritional products in 1980, inspired, he said on his Web
site, because his mother ``totally destroyed her entire life
just trying to lose 30 pounds.'' She died from a drug overdose
when Hughes was 18.

Hughes was sued in the 1980s by the Food and Drug
Administration, the California attorney general's office, and
the state Department of Health, over what they said were
false health claims about Herbalife products and various
marketing schemes.

In 1985 in a hearing before a panel of U.S. senators, he
defended his diet powders and pills by challenging the
scientific experts who questioned the safety of his products:
``If they're such experts, then why are they fat? I've lost 16
pounds in the last few years.''

During the same hearing Hughes admitted that his own education
ended at the 9th grade, but that he felt confident in his
products nonetheless, adding: ``I defy anybody to be able to
produce results as this company has.'' Hughes reached
settlements with the regulatory agencies in 1986, the same
year the company went public.

The company thrived through a worldwide network of more than
750,000 independent distributors who bought Herbalife products
through a multilevel marketing program and resold them to
consumers. In recent months, Hughes had been in a fight to buy
back all the shares of company and make it private. But he was
unsuccessful in securing financing to buy out shareholders.

The $510-million buyout plan, announced last September,
collapsed in April. At the same time as he trying to raise
money to take his company private, he was also battling
neighbors over plans to build a 45,000-square-foot mansion
along a star-studded craggy swatch of the Santa Monica
mountains, on land once owned by the Shah of Iran's sister.

The house would have been larger than the White House, taller
than the famed Hollywood sign itself, and about the size as
the Hearst Castle's main structure. Already a homeowner in
Malibu, Beverly Hills and Maui, Hughes had said he wanted a
new home for his three children and new bride, Darcy La Pier,
the ex-wife of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme.

He had bought the 157-acre plot from Merv Griffin in 1997, who
had incensed locals once already by bulldozing the highest
ridge for a six- home development that never materialized.

In October city lawmakers ruled in Hughes' favor and he began
moving on his plans for the $50 million house which included
25 rooms, a tennis pavilion, a large guardhouse and a
million-gallon pond.

Herbalife class A stock closed down 1-3/16 at a 52-week low of
8-11/16 in late afternoon trading on Nasdaq, well off its year
high of 16-3/8. The class B shares closed down 1-1/16 at a
52-week low of 8, against a year high of 16-1/4.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/herbalife/herbalife4.html

[Jandrew]

The One Who Makes Retraction "Mark Thorson"
<nospam@sonic.net> wrote:

<snip>

FDA named "Fraud and Drug Administration" by consumer health
advocacy group

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under sharp criticism
for its drug safety behavior involving anti-inflammatory
drugs, antidepressants, and the silencing of its own drug
safety scientists, has been offered a new name today: the
Fraud and Drug Administration. The winning name was chosen
from among hundreds of entries submitted by health consumers
fed up with the FDA's apparent mission to protect the profits
of drug companies. Other name ideas submitted by health
consumers include:

Faster Death to Americans Failure to Defend Americans Fact
Distortion Agency Fund Dubya's Administration Forever Drug
Americans Fraudulent Drug Approvals Furtherment of Disease
Alliance Farcical Drug Authority Federal Disinformation
Association Favoring Draconian Actions Federal Drug Advocates
Facilitating the Drugging of America Falsify and Distort
Agency Fatal Death Agency

The contest was initiated by NaturalNews.com editor Mike
Adams, a consumer advocate and outspoken critic of the FDA who
has called for a criminal investigation of the FDA and Vioxx
manufacturer Merck. Just this week, the U.S. Justice
Department launched a criminal investigation into Merck's
apparent cover-up in neglecting to pull Vioxx off the market
even though the company was apparently aware that the drug
substantially increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes and
sudden death, according to internal emails published by the
Wall Street Journal.

The FDA is also under intense scrutiny by legislators. In
recent Senate hearings, medical scientist David Graham, who
conducts drug safety research for the FDA, described the
agency as "incapable of protecting America." He also stated
his belief that Vioxx may be responsible for well over 100,000
heart attacks and strokes, not the 27,000 that has been widely
reported. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has called for new
oversight of the FDA, asserting that the agency has misled the
American public on multiple occasions.

NaturalNews.com readers have been following the ongoing Merck
/ FDA scandal through a series of blogs and commentary posted
by Adams, a 35 year old holistic nutritionist who pubicly
posts his own blood chemistry lab results as proof that
Americans don't need prescription drugs to be healthy. (His
own LDL cholesterol is 67.) Adams characterizes the FDA / drug
company cooperation as a "drug racket" designed to squeeze
consumers for profits at the expense of public safety.

"I was ecstatic to see the level of participation in this FDA
naming contest," Adams explained. "It indicates there is
widespread discontent among the public concerning the FDA's
actions on Vioxx and other drugs. It says that the American
public is fed up with being lied to by the FDA and drug
companies. The people are demanding serious FDA reform."

http://www.naturalnews.com/z002439.html

For more information, visit www.NaturalNews.com

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=47&cont-
entid=2254

FDA Fraud: New Studies Prove Vaccines Cause Autism

On Feb 9, 2004, the National Autism Association issued a
press release that reported on one of the larger studies
under review based on the Center for Disease Control's
Vaccine Safety Datalink. Under independent investigation, the
Association reported, of the CDC's data children were found
to be 27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure
to three thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs), than those
who receive thimerosal-free versions.

Let that sink in.

Twenty-seven times more likely to develop autism. Then
consider that our government regulatory agencies had this
information for years and deliberately kept it hidden from
the public.

This failure to warn the public was not due to negligence or
laziness, it was a deliberate cover-up and it continues today.

How do we know they had it for years? Because the staff for
Rep Dan Burton (R-Ill) obtained an FDA internal e-mail written
on June 29, 1999, by former FDA scientist Peter Patriarca,
that offered a "pros and cons" assessment of the dishonest
statement about Thimerosal in vaccines that the FDA was about
to release, and described the questions that could be raised
upon its release:

(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing
a potentially hazardous compound to remain in many
childhood vaccines, and not forcing manufacturers to
exclude it from new products.

Other Top Stories

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(COUNTERPUNCH.ORG) Vaccination Scam Will Kill Iraqi Children
-Faster by IRIN Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines by DR.
JAMES HOWENSTINE, MD (WORLD VISION PORTAL)

http://www.adrugrecall.com/html/recalled.html

http://www.drugrecalls.com/

[Marshall P]

Mark Thorson wrote:
> They raise a number of issues

There must be a better way of putting that.

--
Marshall Price of Miami Known to Yahoo as d021317c

[D. C. Sess]

In message <31e306be-90ee-4da3-a1bb-10f27067521c@k37g2000hsf.-
googlegroups.com>, drceephd@insightbb.com wrote:
> On May 22, 3:45 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:

>> They raise a number of issues, the most serious allegation
>> being that several Herbalife products have been tested by
>> an FDA-registered lab, and they were found to have
>> excessive levels of lead.
>
> LOL, Fraud discovery institute??? LOL. You pharma shills
> never miss a trick.
>
> I guess a 2 trillion dollar business can afford to fund such
> lunicy to help guarantee its continued profitability.

Ah -- then you approve of lead in all-natural dietary
supplements, apparently on the grounds that "allopathic
medicine" disapproves of it and therefore it must be good.

Worth remembering.

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