World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[ColeThornton]

"Byron had dubbed GlobeTel Communications a "penny stock vampire" that should be exorcised from the capital markets, which didn't sit well with the firm's apparently humorless CEO, Timothy Huff. The executive shot back in a rambling 900-word press release that Byron was a purveyor of "journalistic pornography" who'd published "half-witted," libelous comments.

My friend Chris Byron died on Jan. 7 at 72. I'm pleased to report that he lived to see Huff sentenced to 50 months in prison in 2010 after the CEO pleaded guilty to securities fraud."

I remember how he was disparaged on this board.

"Byron's work helped the everyday person. When he was hired as a columnist by Bloomberg News in 2000, editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler called Byron "the closest thing to a guardian angel an investor can have."

Sad so many here couldn't recognize who their friends really were.