[fml]

Oh puh-leese. Off your meds? The article states , should Patrick meet with an untimely end - hit by a car, plane goes down, chokes on a chicken bone, takes two slugs to the back of the head in a "suicide."The rantings of the good Dr. is what the story is. Overstocks performance most definately is relevent to the issue at hand. If his company was doing well there would be no reason for him to not only cry wolf, but dive off the deep end of reason.

No one ever did plant drugs on the guy and that body never surfaced. I guess he outsmarted them ;)

I never once defended corruption at any level - in fact without your blinders you see I acknowledge crooks do bad deeds. It is just not likely in this case.

[bryedge]

So shallow.

The story is not so much about Hatch's fear for Byrne's safety, but WHY he has those fears. You should have tried to read the entire article.

Hatch's fears are due to the corruption that Byrnes is uncovering. The crooks are very rich, powerful, and dangerous. The corruption is ILLEGAL NAKED SHORT SELLING.
(not margin trading, short selling, baseball cards, stamps,....)