Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne made waves last month by claiming to have had a relationship with Maria Butina, one that he alleged the FBI encouraged him to rekindle after Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee in 2016.
Look at me, I’m so special a figment is out there somewhere I can’t tell you where but they are out to get me. I also can’t tell you how, all so secret.
He’s nuts…if you have been following his dribble in the last few months EVERYONE is ‘setting him up’ and ‘tearing him down’. He is a ‘victim’ to the Deep State, the Democrats and the Republicans who don’t ‘like’ him.
Still, Byrne promised in his post that he is not yet done with his public pronouncements. “Shellac’ is too weak a word for what I intend to do to the Deep State,” he wrote. “Sit back and enjoy the show.”
Sounds like he’ll soon announce the “Guiliani and Byrne — Unhinged 2019!” tour.
"Instead of Overstock shares, Bryne said, he’d invest the money in gold, silver and “two flavors of crypto,” in case of a recession or “The Big One.” "
In terms of corporate governance, that alone shows how steady at the helm he is.
“I know enough to fry the Deep State to ashes,” he wrote of the stock sale, adding: “If I had stayed at Overstock or even remained a large owner of OSTK, they would try to break Overstock as a way of crippling me.”
Byrne is know to keep a hardboiled ostrich egg, a desiccated squirrel carcass and three mint condition Kennedy half dollars, all in a burlap bag he pulls around in a Radio Flyer wagon at night.
Once the market processes the SEC filing showing who dumped all this stock on, I predict this is going to be a rare example of an ex-CEO dumping stock causing a jump in share price.
If Overstock wasn’t doing well then it’s because Wayfair has better commercials and better pricing.
If Byrne had an affair with Butina then is he also a NRA board member?
He’s a victim to the tune of 90 MILLION DOLLARS. I bet that there a lot of people who would kill for that kind of victimhood.
In reality, he’s a f*****g delusional moron who somehow managed to blunder into vast riches by virtue of whilte male privilege and (I am guessing) a religious connection with the Overstock founder through the Mormon Church.