"At some point, maybe from the beginning, his USANA investigation was a for-profit enterprise."
All you need to do is read the web site to know that.
http://www.frauddiscovery.net/privacy.html
What our for profit status does mean.
When
fettering out fraud within public companies , The Fraud Discovery
Institute, Inc. has a for profit model . If investigating a publically
traded company, FDI does not work along side law enforcement in the
gathering of evidence nor do we seek information from law enforcement
as we do in private investment fraud cases like the ones mentioned
above. We do, however, inform the party that has initiated contact with
us that upon completion of our report that it will be submitted to the
various law enforcement agencies (if applicable) with full disclosures
made of any short positions we may take or deals with third party
payers.
Moreover, both the FBI
and the SEC (and if necessary the IRS) are told early on in the process
that we have an investigation into a fully reporting public company but
the name of that company is withheld for the appearance of propriety.
To that end, all obtained evidence in cases dealing with public
companies must be usable, which means FDI will provide a trail of
evidence with corroborating documentation included in the final report
in order to prove it was generated independent of law enforcement
involvement and therefore the rightful property of FDI. In the case of
AOB Commerce, Inc. there was a public company indirectly involved in
this case but FDI did not sell this information to third party payers
nor did we trade in any ‘short position' because information obtained
was with the assistance and approval of law enforcement. Finally, if
(and only if) a company insider is providing FDI with ‘tip' type
information through phone or email, we are required to contact the
company's audit committee chairman with the information received. It
must be understood and clearly disclosed that just because FDI says a
company, especially a public company, is an apparent financial fraud in
progress, unless law enforcement corroborates such findings it is a
meaningless conclusion as the finder of fact is always law enforcement
and the courts...