These types of companies rarely last long. If you're not Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers, sorry, your brand's probably not strong enough to be much more than a fad. Add a MLM pyramid scheme to the mix, and you're begging for a flameout.

Medifast is suing The Fraud Discovery Institute, founded by convicts of the Crazy Eddie scandal, and others (including an anonymous message board poster) for defamation: http://seekingalpha.co...

Medifast seems desperate to shut up critics, and insiders have been dumping shares. It's probably worth a good look as a short on any bounce.

I'm liking Sam Antar the more I read his articles. More convicted Wall Street ex-cons should work to clean up the system they took advantage of. Unfortunately, it's all too easy to sue these days.

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