Thread by @MilesGCohen

"[This] gets into reporter process and I don't think it's published so maybe I should invoke reporter privilege," Parloff testified.

Parloff's attorney nodded vehemently at his client from his seat on a court bench approximately 50 feet away.

Parloff is now consulting with his counsel about whether or not he can answer questions about Richard Kovacevich, a former Theranos board member.

Kovacevich was not named in Parloff's article, but his name was on a memo from the gov to defense regarding Parloff

We're back, and Parloff did speak with Richard Kovacevich, he testified.

He also spoke with:

Gen. James Mattis; George Schultz; Henry Kissinger; Greg Wasson - CEO of Walgreens; UCSF's Mark Laret; Lloyd Dean from dignity health; Scott Serota of Blue Cross Blue Shield ; Dr. David Helfet; Holmes' parents.

Cline and Parloff's attorney are conferencing in the hallway.

Cline wants to know if Parloff heard critcisms from #Theranos competitors and took them to Holmes. (He did take some criticisms to Holmes, Parloff testified.)

Parloff did testify he toured Quest, as Cline elicited.

Quotes in the article are accurate….?



Yes.

“We’re going to focus on the unrecorded conversations here,” Cline said

Cline asked if he writes while he talks, or does he go back in fill in the questions later.

Parloff said sometimes the Q is important, and he'll go back and write it down as soon as possible (after asking)

"Put them into English words," Parloff explained when Cline asked what he meant by transcribing his (written) notes.

"I'm not a skilled court reporter I do the best I can with my short hand, my speed writing," Parloff said.

"After twelve months I throw them out in accordance w/ Fortune's policy...You sort of had to, bc there was just no space to keep all these notes," Parloff testified.

"The handwritten notes you took are destroyed?" Cline asked.

"They're thrown out," Parloff corrected.

"I would transcribe my speed writing notes...if I had the tape to later I would fill in - make it more accurate with a tape recorder," Parloff testified.

"Of course if you didnt have a taped recording you weren’t able to make it more accurate," cline asked.

"Right."

Cline asked if after the Oct. 2015 WSJ article, Parloff began reconstructing his interactions with Ms. Holmes.

"In the course of that reconstruction you read through your computer?" Cline asked, alluding to the computer document he testified to court today which sums his notes

"I bolded certain things as I was writing bc I thought this would be a good quote and so on. What I did at some point after the WSJ articles came out, is I did key word searches. I looked for certain words and numbers to try to figure out what happened," Parloff testified.

"I also bold faced at that point some passages that I found," he testified.

We're calling it a day — Parloff will be back tomorrow when we return.

Cline will resume a question line about some notes Parloff shared with the prosecutors in an April 2018 meeting.

Prosecutor Robert Leach said if the defense chooses to put on a case tomorrow, its first witness will be a paralegal from Williams & Connolly (Holmes' attorneys law firm.)