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On January 11, 2011, Mr. Coburn indicated he got Mr. Thornton’s voicemail, and stated,
“Assuming you are seriously interested, along the lines of what we discussed a few weeks ago
(in terms of scope and comp), I am going to float your name confidentially (with) the MedStar
folks tomorrow when I have my kick-off meeting with them.” Thornton replied, “Sure thing.
Have you put any thought into bonus opportunity?”
On January 12, 2011, Mr. Thornton sent a blog to Mr. Coburn entitled “Fixing Biotech’s Broken
Business Model” along with the message “Chris, a very timely blog that emphasizes the critical
importance of the innovation alliance. The alliance will be a national model for health care
commercialization. I’d look forward to being a part of it.”
On January 20, 2011, Mr. Coburn’s assistant sent Mr. Thornton an email to check his availability
for a meeting with MedStar on February 8 th .
On February 15, 2011, Mr. Thornton placed a one minute call on his KBA cell phone to the
phone number associated with Chris Coburn.
On February 22, 2011, Mr. Thornton placed a two minute call on his KBA cell phone to the
phone number associated with Debra Cunningham, Department Coordinator at Cleveland Clinic
Innovations.
On February 23, 2011, Mr. Thornton was copied on an internal email between MedStar
personnel, which stated, “Just a reminder that Tom Thornton will be in DC 2/28 to 3/2 and asked
through Chris if we could set up some follow-up meetings for him with us (which is a great sign
that he is mentally transitioning to join us). Tom thought he could carve out about 4 hours of
time on one of the days to come over for meetings.”
On February 28, 2011, Mr. Thornton placed a two minute call from his KBA cell phone to the
number associated with Chris Coburn.
On March 10, 2011, Mr. Thornton placed a one minute call from his KBA cell phone to the
number associated with Susan Bernat, Director of Operations and Finance at Cleveland Clinic
Innovations. On March 10, 2011, Thornton received an email from Susan Bernat at Cleveland
Clinic Innovations, which stated, “Tom- just checking to see if you had a chance to pull together
the numbers we discussed this morning.” On March 11, 2011, Thornton replied, “I was provided
a $50K moving allowance upon joining KBA. These are the actual data (round figures) from my
move from Chicago to run KBA: $21,000 for move of possessions; $8,000 for temporary
housing in Kansas (4 months); $4,000 for airfare between Chicago and Kansas (pre-job hunting
in Kansas, disposition of Chicago condo); $1,000 for storage.”
Although Mr. Thornton’s KBA computer has been effectively wiped, 39 there were some
Windows shortcut files with names, but not contents, of folders and files that existed on
Thornton’s computer at one time. The following Windows shortcut files were found to be
relevant to the possible timeline of Thornton’s offer and acceptance of employment from
Cleveland Clinic Innovations.
39 Refer to Thornton Computer Section later in this report for a discussion of the removal, deletion and wiping of
information from Thornton’s KBA computer by Thornton.
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