Eli Lilly was in settlement talks with prosecutors over the company’s marketing improprieties of its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa. According to the story, the settlement could end in Lilly’s paying more than $1 billion.
So how’d the NYT get the story? According to Portfolio.com, the source of the leak was a lawyer at Pepper Hamilton, who, believing he or she was sending a packet of confidential documents to co-counsel, Bradford Berenson at Sidley Austin, mistakenly e-mailed the documents to New York Times reporter Alex Berenson.
When Berenson began calling around for comment, reports Portfolio, and seemed to possess remarkably detailed inside infomration about the negotiations, Eli Lilly initially believed that the source of the leak had been the government.
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