For­mer MiMedx CEO and COO are con­vict­ed on fraud, con­spir­a­cy charges

The MiMedx saga — which has in­clud­ed a months-long in­ves­ti­ga­tion, FBI in­volve­ment and al­le­ga­tions that the com­pa­ny fraud­u­lent­ly boost­ed its sales — has re­sult­ed in the con­vic­tion of two for­mer ex­ec­u­tives. But it isn’t quite over yet.

For­mer CEO Park­er “Pe­te” Pe­tit and for­mer COO William Tay­lor have been con­vict­ed on a se­cu­ri­ties fraud count and a con­spir­a­cy count, re­spec­tive­ly, in the South­ern Dis­trict Court of New York. The Man­hat­tan US at­tor­ney’s of­fice ac­cused the men of false­ly re­port­ing $9.5 mil­lion of rev­enue in 2015 to boost the com­pa­ny’s stock and fill their own pig­gy banks, per a Law360 re­port.

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