Thread by @CarolinaBolado

Back in the courtroom for Kleiman v. Wright. A doctor has been going through Dave Kleiman's medical records, explaining his medical issues. There were a lot. Kleiman had really bad pressure ulcers (aka bed sores) and couldn't sit or lay down for any extended period of time.

There were bacterial infections, hospitalizations. He was on painkillers. The reason this is being presented is that Wright has argued that Kleiman was too sick to have done any meaningful work on bitcoin.

In the records, nurses recorded that he was on the computer a lot and that he didn't elaborate on what he was doing, just said he was doing work. They also recorded that he watched movies on the laptop.

On cross-examination, Kleiman's team is pointing out that the doctor only reviewed medical records from Sept 2010 until 2013 and he can't opine on his abilities before that.

The doctor on the stand was not asked to evaluate Kleiman's mental capacity.

It's rough hearing about Dave Kleiman's medical issues. His former coworker and friend Kimon Andreou is on the stand now. They worked together at S-doc, where Kleiman was chief information security officer.

From a May 2011 text msg: "I cannot even go down the hall to get soda out of the soda machine…do you know how imprisoned/weak/useless that makes you feel especially if you deal with it for months upon months. I bet just a few weeks of that would drive a normal person insane."

Andreou testified that he was close with Dave Kleiman, that they worked together for several years and would see each other outside the office too. He visited him at the VA hospital during Dave's stays there.

He said Dave Kleiman was not a coder, that he had asked Andreou for help on some stuff at work because he didn't know how to program.

Andreou said Kleiman would tell him about papers he was writing, including one paper he worked on with Wright on overwriting data. He also said Kleiman had a thumb drive with encrypted files on him all the time, with his keys, attached to his wheelchair.

Andreou: "When I wrote this email I never expected it would be entered as evidence in court."

Let this be a lesson to everyone.

Carter Conrad, who worked with Kleiman at Computer Forensics LLC, just took the stand now. The other Computer Forensics managing partner, Patrick Paige, testified for the plaintiffs earlier in the case.

And now we've got accountant David Kuharcik, our first witness by Zoom. He was a friend of Dave's who also was his accountant and who later became the accountant for Computer Forensics.

We saw some tax returns, then there was sniping about privilege here. This testimony has to be done very carefully because there’s a professional privilege involved between an accountant and a client and Ira Kleiman hasn’t waived it on behalf of the estate.

Kuharcik will continue testifying tomorrow. But in the meantime Judge Bloom asked for the parties to give her more information on whether Ira waived privilege so she can determine the scope of what can be allowed tomorrow.