Theranos Reporter Ready for Stand if Called in Holmes Case (1)

The investigative journalist whose story sparked the downfall of Theranos Inc. said he’s yet to receive a subpoena in the trial of company founder Elizabeth Holmes though he’s willing to offer his testimony.

John Carreyrou, whose October 2015 report in the Wall Street Journal cast doubts about the efficacy of Theranos’ technology, locked horns with the company’s lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner. Heather King, a former Theranos legal chief who eventually returned to Boies Schiller, sent the Journal retraction demands, he said.

“There was an incredibly aggressive, scorched-earth legal campaign, as I called it in my book, to threaten and ...