Kudos on your post and thanks for posting your comment. I’m impressed with the level of detail Berenson gave you about the sourcing of his story. Given that he seems to be quite talkative these days, I cannot help but wonder why he didn’t set the record straight when contacted by the Portfolio.com reporter.

Thanks again for posting your comment.

Eric

Like the others, Pharmalot also ran an updated post to clarify the record. As part of that, I spoke with Berenson, who indicated the two line e-mail he received was valuable mostly because it indicated the settlement talks, which he said he’d known about previously but were on hold, had restarted. The other info in the e-mail, he said, was about setting up a teleconference call. Apparently, he didn’t act on the talks previously for two reasons – they had been placed on hold some time ago and the e-mail wasn’t protected by off-the-record ground rules that were established earlier with sources. For what it’s worth…. Meanwhile, here’s what I wrote on Pharmalot….

http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/reporter-says-lilly-leak-was-no-accident/

Cheers
ed