Here (via Google cache) is the response (now gone) from the Randy Haugen News blog:
Randy Haugen is a person of proven character and integrity. When a
P&G rumor was accidentally decimated by Mr. Haugen, he made every
effort to retract it. We believe that it is a continuing outrage that
Mr. Haugen and the other Quixtar IBOs in the case have been targeted by
one of the world’s largest corporations.A Salt Lake City court returned a verdict against Randy Haugen and
several others in the long-running P&G case. The jury awarded
P&G damages of $19.25 million. That’s a far cry from the $5 billion
P&G had demanded, and frankly leaves them with very little to show
for a wasteful and spiteful decade of mean-spirited litigation.But that doesn’t make the verdict any more acceptable for the Quixtar
IBO defendants in this case. We’d like to think that, had the jury been
allowed to see some of the evidence that was withheld from them by the
court, they would have voted differently. Perhaps, if there is an
appeal, they will.But at the same time, we also remain respectful of the decision,
the jury and the judicial system, even when we are extremely
disappointed in the fairness of a particular outcome.
it really wasn’t ever about an award so much as it was about winning a PR/publicity campaign, and damaging a once fast-growing potential market threat.
the negative publicity was very damaging to the fastest growing organization in the amway business at the time.
one has to wonder if possibly P&G might have created the rumour as a rouse and excuse to bring down the business.
i’d like to find out where the TRUE origins of this rumor were created.