Tim Draper is one person. It's the non SV/VC members that would be a factor here. Of course I could be wrong: There's enough to Theranos to make the career of a

Tim Draper is one person. It's the non SV/VC members that would be a factor here. Of course I could be wrong: There's enough to Theranos to make the career of any prosecutor involved, and that may have been enough. But speculating on that as the animus doesn't seem any more or less unreasonable than speculating that people who were on the board for their government influence might have been a factor. They may never even have needed to make a call: Having the names of two former Secretaries of State, a former Secretary of Defense, and a 4-star general attached to a scandal would be more than enough passive influence for people in the DOJ to perk up their ears and start looking to see what the heck happened.