Holmes Met Ultra-Rich Backers Through Kissinger’s Lawyer (1)

An estate lawyer for Henry Kissinger revealed that he helped Theranos Inc. line up investments totaling $370 million from from some of the wealthiest families in the U.S. -- the Waltons, the Coxes, the Oppenheimers and the DeVoses -- four years before the blood-testing company collapsed in scandal.

The funding from those four families accounts for more than half of the $700 million in investor money Elizabeth Holmes is accused of raising through an elaborate fraud at Theranos.

Daniel Mosley, a longtime estate lawyer at white-shoe firm Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, testified at Holmes’s trial that he ...