The closing of Vitesse/Provinent was a calculated move that has been developing for some time. Starting immediately following the merger of the two companies, Epstein Enterprises Inc. started withholding sales commissions for all business development representatives at Vitesse. Because these people had signed NDAs they were forced to quite without alerting others to this situation. This lead to a complete turnover of the pharmaceutical sales force that had built Vitesselearning into one of the most powerful players in the eLearning sector (pre-merger). As anyone who has dealt in this field knows, sales is relationship based, so the new sales people had to develop their relationships prior to establishing new work, thus a huge empty window emerged that was insurmountable from a business perspective. Thus, Epstein was justified in shutting down a "failing" operation, all the while creating the situation itself. The final shut down itself was handled in a brutal and illegal fashion. Accrued vacation pay was denied; pending expence reimbursements were denied; on-going COBRA coverage was denied. Those are the tangible illegalities involved. Following this shutdown of the US operations, the Canadian operations are undergoing a "reorganization" with the full intent to try and regain the US pharmaceutical contracts that were abandoned by Epstein's closure. Essentially, Epstein is trying to snag contracts that were initially established by the US company that he acquired in the merger. It has also come to light that Epstein Enterprises will sue any former Vitesse employee who attempts to contact their former contacts in order to try and regain that business on a private contract basis. So Mr. Epstein is trying a very ethically questionable maneuver wherein he tries to claim that on the one hand, all contracts and rights for former Vitesse employees are null and void, but on the other hand these same employees are still bound to some clause that was a part of the very contracts that he has declared null and void.