BFL in its entirety is being dragged through the mud because of the checkered past of one employee.
The hiding of the fraud conviction of a primary company officer is just the next item in a long list of questionable activities.
We've all seen the mug shot of Bill Gates, yet no one feared that he was going to tank Microsoft and run away with the cash - not because we trust old Billy that much, but because he's operating within a system that was explicitly designed to prevent him from doing so. BFL operates within exactly the same sort of system.
No comparison. Microsoft is a public company, and as such is under far stricter rules than a private company. For example, the entire list of Microsoft board of directors is:
Steve Ballmer
Dina Dublon
Bill Gates
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Reed Hastings
Maria M. Klawe
Stephen J. Luczo
David F. Marquardt
Charles H. Noski
Dr. Helmut Panke
John W. Thompson
a big structured organization of 22 people with a board of directors
And what are the names of the individuals on the board?
While being publicly traded certainly does add new stringent criteria on how you run the show, I was more speaking to anyone's ability to take the money and run. Incorporation still requires such measures in most states and whether it was required of them or not, they have indeed taken those measures.
I don't know the names of the board but I'm sure some BFL employee out there does and would have no problem giving up that list. It's not really my question to answer.
