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The One Billion Dollar E-Mail Mistake

When the New York Times broke the story last week that Eli Lilly was in confidential settlement talks with the government, drug company executives accused federal officials of leaking the information.

However, it turned out that a lawyer working for the company had mistakenly emailed confidential information on the talks to Times reporter Alex Berenson instead of co-counsel Bradford Berenson.

Negotiations over Eli Lilly’s alleged marketing improprieties for its schizophrenia drug Zyprexa had reached an unprecedented sum of $1 billion, so Eli Lilly was anxious to keep the talks under wraps.

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  Portfolio.com February 5, 2008




 
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Posted On Feb 06, 2008
The mis-directed, confidential email may set a precedent. Henceforth, billion dollar slips of the auto-fill address shall be known as EmBerensonments .

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Posted On Feb 06, 2008
Could not happen to a more deserving bunch of crooks, errrrr, Pharmaceutical Executives...

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Posted On Feb 06, 2008
Is there a reason that we should not hear about this?  I wonder if it was really a mistake?

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Posted On Feb 07, 2008
me thinks it was "accidently on purpose" if you know what I mean

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Posted On Feb 06, 2008
I sounds so typical of the pharmaceutical companies tactics,  It can't be our product causing the problem, so it has to be the other people in this case the government.

Mary

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