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SEC Responds To Sen. Ed Markey On Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's letter to Sen. Ed Markey regarding Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) is pretty scant on answers. Regulators basically said that they don't disclose information about whether they have investigated or are currently investigating a company on suspicions of being a pyramid scheme. Then they go into the guidelines for what a pyramid scheme is, which officials have already provided online in other places.

Herbalife questions left unanswered

In his letter, Markey called attention to how Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) management's questions regarding the number of sales which are outside their network have changed. The SEC again reiterated his position of not disclosing any past or current investigations into companies and said it was unable to comment on Herbalife.

The senator also...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.