'Erratic' Overstock.com CEO Punished Short Sellers, Suit Says

By Emilie Ruscoe (September 30, 2019, 5:05 PM EDT) -- Internet retailer Overstock.com was hit with a proposed class action in Utah federal court Friday by an investor claiming that in the tumultuous months after the company launched a cryptocurrency trading platform, the "erratic" CEO and his top financial deputy manipulated the markets and ultimately knocked half the price off its shares....

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