Deseret News – July 28, 2008
A Utah multilevel marketing company has settled a dispute with a critic who agreed to stop disparaging nutritional supplement maker USANA Health Sciences Inc.
Self-proclaimed fraud buster Barry Minkow said he took a critical report off his Web site. He shut down another Web site devoted to USANA’s dealings in China, and he pulled interviews with failed USANA distributors from YouTube.
Other terms weren’t disclosed, but USANA said Monday it was happy with the settlement.
USANA said it will withdraw its lawsuit against Minkow and his San Diego-based Fraud Discovery Institute from U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
USANA sued Minkow for defamation and stock manipulation, but most of those claims were thrown out March 3 by U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell. Separately from the settlement, the company paid $142,510 in attorney fees to Minkow and his institute under an order from federal Magistrate Samuel Alba.
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