I found this in a biotech newsletter today. I think it may be pertinent to all stocks, but is obviously pertinent to bio stocks that have been bad mouthed by the stock press (manipulators...)
"Canada's Generex isn't at all happy with TheStreet and biotech analyst Adam Feuerstein's assessment of the company, and it's letting its displeasure be known--in the form of a $250 million lawsuit.
Generex is miffed about two articles Feuerstein wrote expressing doubt about the company's oral insulin spray Oral-lyn for Type 1 diabetes, and questioning the strength of the data behind approval of the drug in other countries. In the second article, he boldly states that further investigation into Generex work reveals that the developer is "using science and the quest to develop an alternative insulin delivery method not to actually help diabetics but as a ruse to perpetuate a 15 year-long stock promotion scheme."
Generex fired back with a lawsuit which, at $250 million, asks for damages that total twice the company's market cap. "These articles go well beyond the expression of disparaging opinion or fair comment," says Mark Fletcher, Generex's executive vice president & general counsel. "Feuerstein and TheStreet.com have abused their public forum by spreading categorical falsehoods about Generex and Generex Oral-lyn when a modicum of due diligence would have revealed the truth, an injury then compounded by unfounded and libelous allegation and innuendo."
The same day as the lawsuit was announced, Feuerstein published another article stating that while the company had gained regulatory OK for Oral-lyn in India, that approval was rescinded last year after the drug was on the market for three months. Regulators there said the drug's approval violated India's laws because it hadn't been tested in a local population. Yet the company made no note of the withdrawal in any of its documentation."
Source was fiercebiotech news.
IIRC ANX is just one of the stocks the street (and their buddies in the stock crime news game) have periodically sent into sell offs.....
This could be the start of a nice trend to take short selling news gurus to the cleaners for trying to screw over real investors!!!!!!
