Herbalife CEO dismisses thought his association is a pyramid scheme



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Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:03pm EST


NEW YORK (Reuters) – The CEO of Herbalife, a association that sells weight government products, on Wednesday criticized a sidestep account manager who is shorting a company’s batch formed on a faith that it is a pyramid scheme, job that thought “bogus.”

Michael Johnson pronounced in a matter to a press that William Ackman, who oversees $11 billion in resources during Pershing Square Capital Management and who reliable Wednesday he was shorting Herbalife stock, should be investigated by a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“This appears to be nonetheless another try to illegally manipulate a marketplace by a organisation of overzealous short-sellers,” Johnson said.

(Reporting by Emily Flitter; Editing by Gary Hill)

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