Erin Griffith 🩸 “Our Holmes Matter” 🩸 The prosecution is expected to rest their fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes today. The crowds are back. And the lawyers are fighting about upcoming testimony. Erin Griffith That’s it for today. Erin Griffith After the WSJ article came out, Parloff says he went back through his notes to try to figure out what happened. Then we skip right to the government subpoena over the Theranos investigation. (No mention of Parloff’s correction to his story.) Erin Griffith Cline asks whether Parloff’s questions to Ms. Holmes about the use of third party machines were “leading.” Parloff says he asked it that way because “I thought it was already obvious but I didn’t want to let something like that slip by.” Erin Griffith Extremely detailed discussion of Parloff’s note taking practices. He threw out his handwritten notes after 12 months per Fortune’s policy. There is a digital document of notes Parloff had on his conversations with Holmes. Erin Griffith Not satisfied, Cline needs to know that the questions came from the competitors. As I wrote today, Cline has said defense intends to show that Parloff “was colored by bias” and “a desire to blame any errors he made in his initial article on Ms. Holmes.” Erin Griffith Cline: Now this is a question you may not want to answer. Some of the questions you asked Ms. Holmes about their technology came from Theranos’s competitors? Parloff: I did research and I heard various criticisms and I asked her to address those questions and criticisms. Erin Griffith OK, we go down the list and Parloff confirms he spoke with numerous Theranos board members, the C.E.O. of Walgreens and the top people at Dignity Health, UCSF, Blue Cross Blue Shield, a medical doctor, and Holmes’s …
