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was fosk testifying in one of the investor suits filed against thernos. Luckily for prosecutors, the reasons he claimed not to recall are spelled out in an email sunny sent him on november seventeenth, two thousand 14, copying two other employees, sunny wrote, our goal is to hide all normandy devices from phoenix employees. Fosk was a college friend of elizabeth's brother, christian, and was thus viewed as someone who could keep things in the family, so to speak. Fosk drew up a list of code names to replace the real names of the third party machines thernos had modified. The code name he chose for the advia was avon, the name of a fictional drug dealer in the h b o series, the wire sunn didn't catch the reference and changed it to 18 c. Once fosk inputed the code names into the software system, the phoenix lab employees couldn't tell what devices thernos was using in the california lab for its finger stick testing. Thernos board of directors was as much in the dark as the phoenix employees, although it was an impressive group that included former cabinet members like henry kissenger, george schultz and bill perry. None of the board members had experts an blood diagnostics. Most didn't even realize therno's own third party analyzers. A few did, but they were told the company used them only for comparison purposes to hone the accuracy of its tests. One former member of the board did eventually figure out what was going on. Channing roberts, elizabeth's chemical engineering professor at stanford and her first mentor. He'd served on thernoss board from the start up launch in two thousand four until two thousand 13. After that, he'd become a paid consultant to the company. Holmes didn't let him in on her secret, but he started to piece it together when he got a finger stick result for a hemotology test as he later explained in a sworn deposition, he knew the edison couldn't perform hemotology tests, so it had to have been done some other way.

So as i began to formulate this, i realized that the company had the ability, in the clear lab, to do a full henotology test on a on the finger prick of blood. And in connecting those dots, had to come to the conclusion that we must have modified third party machines to take small samples.