Journalist since hot type, author of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie (Hachette Books). Just out in paperback!
Oct 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/x @RajaAbdulrahim doesn't have to be actually in Gaza to spew Hamas propaganda. Her front page @nytimes piece today, from Jerusalem, gushes with anti-Zionist tropes, omissions, distortions, historical revisionism and lies, reading almost like a @TheBabylonBee parody. She makes 2/ copious references to the so-called "nakba" of 1948, but "forgets" to mention that it was part of a war of extermination waged against the new State of Israel by the surrounding Arab states, after they rejected a partition plan, accepted by the Jews, that would've given the
Sep 29, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/ I tried looking for ownership of that "jewel of a log cabin" Park City-area residence 👇👇belonging to $OSTK ex-CEO Patrick Byrne, mentioned in a Wired piece by the court stenographer @CadeMetz. And guess what? He is registered to vote at a Park City office building. @CadeMetz 2) He used to have some property under his own name----but transferred it a "Haverford" corporate entity some years ago. "Haverford" pops up in $OSTK-related filings now and then as a Byrne-owned entity.
But not to worry---none of this will help if the SEC comes knocking.
Jun 19, 2019 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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…