Biovail's Assault Has a Familiar, Ominous Ring (BVF, OSTK)

Amid all the clucking and fussing over Canadian pharmaceutical company Biovail’s (BVF) grab for $4.6 billion in damages from Stevie Cohen’s SAC Capital, research house Gradient Analytics, and sundry other individuals and corporate entities, some minor factoids do not appear to have gathered as much attention as they might.

Putting aside the absence of a Sith Lord, the charges relating the relationship between SAC and Gradient are very similar to those alleged by Overstock.com (OSTK) in its suit against Rocker Partners and Gradient. Specifically, the hedge funds are accused of conspiring with Gradient to launch a “massive and fraudulent disinformation campaign