Biz journalist responds to company's allegations of bad reporting

Investigative business journalist Roddy Boyd, who used to work for Fortune and the New York Post business desk, responded Tuesday to allegations from a company he recently wrote about on his site, The Financial Investigator.

Boyd writes, “Robert Bursky, the independant General Counsel for John Thomas Financial, has written out a series of pointed questions expressing their anger over this story. Moving past questions over who my sources were and whether they paid me – I’m not telling and no I was not – Bursky’s questions speak to whether the preperation for this story was fair and thorough. I argue it was both. Every chance was afforded JTF to respond (as can be seen plainly below), I was specific about what I sought to write, and most importantly everything that was written came from documents that JTF currently has in their posession.

“Bursky’s questions are here. My response is here. I stand by everything I wrote. I made a good faith effort to include their views and am not certain – save for their allegation that Kai Patterson was recently indicted for fraud, something which if true, I should have discovered – where I made the profound mistakes they accuse me of.”

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