Bad Blood

an envelope in his hand. He handed it to Erika, then turned around and left. When she saw the address on the envelope, Erika’s h ...

The letter went on to say that, if Erika wished to avoid litigation, she must submit to an interview with Boies Schiller attorne ...

It was Erika and she seemed badly shaken. She told me about the man in the SUV, the address on the envelope, and the ultimatum f ...

article. The doctors were Lauren Beardsley and Saman Rezaie from the Scottsdale practice I’d visited. The truth was that I hadn’ ...

her that it was an empty threat, it dawned on me that there was nothing these people would stop at to make my story go away. ...

T | TWENTY-TWO | La Mattanza he early days of July 2015 brought two pieces of good news for Theranos. The first was that the FDA ...

were poor and wouldn’t pass muster, he added. When in turn I told him about the things I had learned in the course of my reporti ...

During a phone interview Holmes granted him for this second article, Parloff inquired about an Ebola test Theranos had in the wo ...

support. Noticing that the miniLab running the potassium test was stuck at 70 percent completion, he took the cartridge out and ...

Biden to come visit Theranos’s Newark facility, which was now home to both Theranos’s clinical laboratory and its miniLab manufa ...

Negative Glassdoor reviews about the company weren’t unusual. Balwani made sure they were balanced out by a steady flow of fake ...

first, but they figured it out when a Secret Service advance team showed up a few days before Biden arrived. The day of the visi ...

violations of HIPAA, the federal health privacy law, on the grounds that some of the emails he had forwarded to his Gmail accoun ...

quarry. What we were doing was the journalistic version of la mattanza, Mike said. We were patiently lying in wait until we were ...

M | TWENTY-THREE | Damage Control eanwhile, behind the scenes, Holmes was trying another avenue to quash the story. In March, a ...

it. Over a lunch served by the ranch’s staff, Holmes pitched Murdoch on an investment, emphasizing that she was looking for long ...

By the time Mike Siconolfi and I had our conversation about the ancient art of Sicilian fishing in late July, Holmes had had thr ...

sources, as did several other former employees. While Tyler Shultz remained unreachable (I’d gotten his mother on the phone and ...

The letter requested an audience with Gerry Baker, the Journal’s editor in chief. For the sake of fairness, Baker granted him on ...

than two weeks away. Baker told Boies that we weren’t going to wait weeks but that he was willing to push back publication by a ...