Let this be a lesson to everybody about the way the thug agencies that run the government really work. The FDA and the IRS rely on the size of their bureaucracy as a tool to ensure that people won't fight punitive actions. Primordial performance and other supplement companies could learn a lot from how illegal drug dealers operate:

You never sell from your stash house.
You always keep the product far from the sales front.
Never keep more supply on the sales floor then you're prepared to lose. Same goes for cash.
Have a plan for the heat. It should include enough cash to shift operations when the Feds crash your operation.

I don't think there's any denying that Eric is a genius, but he had no exit plan. Whenever you have a business that is subject to government regulatory exposure, it's always good to practice operational risk management. It's my belief that Eric believed that the government would actually follow a set of rules or prior practices, but there's no guarantee that they'll do that. This is why you see other industries, where there are inherent risks, are full of holding companies or parent companies, and limited partnerships. A good, but immoral, example is British Petroleum and the rig the Deep Horizon. Everybody thought that BP would go down in flames, but when the government went after BP, the government soon realized that there was a myriad of other companies through which BP deferred liability. Sure they lost a lot of money, maybe a years worth of profit when it was all said and done, but that company killed people and they're going to be walking away free. Just like lifting, form matters in business.