Hu­man Longevi­ty blasts Craig Ven­ter, claim­ing he was fired, then stole trade se­crets — poach­ing staffers for ri­val op­er­a­tion

Af­ter two months of smoke, we’re see­ing the 5-alarm fire that’s been burn­ing at Hu­man Longevi­ty.

On Fri­day, the com­pa­ny fired a bit­ter sal­vo at ex-CEO and ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Craig Ven­ter — the leg­endary ge­nom­ic re­searcher who re­turned to his epony­mous in­sti­tute in May — fil­ing suit claim­ing that Ven­ter had stolen trade se­crets, re­cruit­ed staffers and planned to set up a ri­val or­ga­ni­za­tion.

How did they know? Ac­cord­ing to the law­suit, Ven­ter kept his com­pa­ny Leno­vo lap­top, and used it in his cam­paign, which they could track. And now they’re blast­ing him with the de­tails.

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