According to the lawsuit, defendants made false and misleading statements regarding the Leslie’s business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:

• Leslie’s growth was caused by customers over purchasing products to stockpile in case of a chemical shortage;
• such sales inflated revenues and earnings and were not indicative of durable and sustainable demand or financial growth;
• Leslie’s took advantage of chemical shortages by urging customers to stock up on the products because Leslie’s could not “guarantee availability” of chemicals in the future; and
• any slowdown in sales was not a normalization of past seasonality, but was due to the prior excess stockpiling.

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