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1) Frequently I'm asked what motivated $OSTK shill Marc Cohodes to flush his reputation down the toilet by pumping Overstock. Why would a self-styled "fraud buster" not only endorse a fraud, but slobber over a notoriously dishonest and wacky CEO? Just look at his tweets.
2) Note this tweet. CEO Patrick Byrne, an expert con man, exploited his rage at $GS. His Copper River fund collapsed in 2008 because of his own mismanagement--a swap that blew up in his face. Cohodes, rather than take responsibility, blamed Goldman web.archive.org/web/2010012318… 
3) In 2016, Cohodes, who nowadays likes to project a "progressive" image, endorsed the far-right $OSTK Chairman J. Johnson for Utah governor. This was shortly after a scathing Daily Beast story that prompted an attack on the Beast writer in Deep Capture.web.archive.org/web/2016050108…
4) By May 2016, a year and a half before he started pumping $OSTK shares, he was already endorsing CEO Patrick Byrne's notorious "Sith Lord" conspiracy theory.
5) By April 2017 Cohodes was attacking $OSTK competitor Wayfair ( $W) and proclaiming his undying friendship for the nutcase CEO.
6 of 6) But what about the fact that $OSTK sued Rocker Partners (Cohodes' old hedge fund)? What about that? Cohodes explains that away in December 2017: he sides with Byrne and attacks his partner David Rocker.
And that's the story, boys and girls. Context the puff pieces omit.
And that's the story, boys and girls. Context the puff pieces omit.
Note that if you peruse all the pre-October 2017 posts---and I was following Cohodes & vice versa until he blocked me that month----there is not a single reply from me or any $OSTK critic criticizing him. The pushback began only after he began rewriting history---i.e., lying.
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