The jurors are not very far from Elizabeth. This is like this modern courthouse that was built in 1990. I’ve covered white-collar criminal trials in New York, and you have these century-old court buildings and these cavernous courtrooms. It’s interesting, the trial’s taking place in San Jose, which, not to offend anyone in Silicon Valley, is kind of a sleepy city. I think they got a ton of information from that lawsuit, and I think that lawsuit and PFM were instrumental in getting the criminal case off the ground. I’m not sure that prosecutors would have brought the criminal case if it hadn’t been for all these other private actions, especially PFM’s lawsuit in Delaware. I think that they definitely helped the government investigation with all the discovery, and they very much called attention to what Theranos had done. There were about a dozen suits filed by patients in Arizona that were consolidated into a class action. Theranos also settled that one, I think for $30 million, but then ended up not paying the whole sum and was sued again. He eventually reached a settlement and was made whole. Another investor that brought suit was a former investment banker named Robert Coleman. Well, when I came out with my first story in late 2015, Theranos still had something like $600 or $700 million in the bank, it had a ton of money left, and a lot of that money from that point on went to paying lawyers and went to paying for legal settlements.
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