Jake writes in with the story behind an explosive NYTimes scoop last week. It seems that the Times's stimulant creation reporter, Alex Berenson, scored a page-one blockbuster when he revealed that Eli Lilly was looking to reach a settlement with federal prosecutors over the company's alleged inappropriate merchandising of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa. A settlement figure of $1 billion was mentioned. This scoop dropped into Berenson's inbox when a lawyer for one of Lilly's retained firms mis-addressed an email to a colleague with the same last name as that of the Times reporter. Some online onlookers are speculating that auto-complete is to blame, but this has not been confirmed.

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