Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes

[Megansnarkle]

I definitely think she got pregnant on purpose, she is very calculating. Generally I do feel sorry for women with young children/who are pregnant in this situation but not for someone like her tbh

I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, maybe it was calculated, but on the other hand, she met her husband in 2017 when she was 33, they got married two years later and then had children. If she wanted to have kids, that's an entirely normal timescale and the start of the decline of fertility. If she knew she was likely to go away for a period of time then even if that period of time was say five years, it would become much harder to become pregnant when she got out. It's not ideal but loads of kids grow up with one parent and whilst it's not ideal having one in prison at least they will have some sort of relationship until she gets released.

 

[Swipeupyouguys]

I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, maybe it was calculated, but on the other hand, she met her husband in 2017 when she was 33, they got married two years later and then had children. If she wanted to have kids, that's an entirely normal timescale and the start of the decline of fertility. If she knew she was likely to go away for a period of time then even if that period of time was say five years, it would become much harder to become pregnant when she got out. It's not ideal but loads of kids grow up with one parent and whilst it's not ideal having one in prison at least they will have some sort of relationship until she gets released.

I don't think she's married...if she was they'd go after him / his wealthy family to try and recoup some of what she owes. His parents are wealthy, he's nearly a decade younger than her and not unattractive meaning he could have found a nice rich gal from his circle. Why he's with her, getting together after the thernaous fraud / playing with people's health and their lives became public (very public) is a real head scratcher. People didn't just lose all their money, some lost their lives.

11 years is not enough. The trial seems to be all about the money she stole rather than the lives she was responsible for ending.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

I have been watching The Dropout on BBC and it's really good. It's very odd that whilst Elizabeth was a 18 year old uni student, she was with a 37 year old married man.

 

[EleanorRigby]

I have been watching The Dropout on BBC and it's really good. It's very odd that whilst Elizabeth was a 18 year old uni student, she was with a 37 year old married man.

In terms of "oddness" I'd say this is the tip of the iceberg with Elizabeth.

 

[emm]

I have been watching The Dropout on BBC and it's really good. It's very odd that whilst Elizabeth was a 18 year old uni student, she was with a 37 year old married man.

I caught a couple of episodes the other day, it is very good

 

[kev1974]

I have been watching The Dropout on BBC and it's really good. It's very odd that whilst Elizabeth was a 18 year old uni student, she was with a 37 year old married man.

can confirm. Have watched the whole series (8 episodes I think) and really enjoyed it (had previously watched some of the "factual" documentaries on the story). I thought the cast were really good, Amanda Seyfried and Stephen Fry were both perfect (especially liked the part where she found her new voice, and the little touches like her closet full of black polo necks, all still with the price tags hanging on them). But the standout star for me was Naveen Andrews (Syed From Lost) as Sunny Balwani who I thought was superbly creepy and dramatically unstable at times too. The senator guy that was invested in it all was proper nasty as well!

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

My mind was blown watching it. I was like Lorraine looks like Blind Brenda from Road Trip. I looked it up and it is her around quarter of a century later!!!

 

[cocoblush]

Her sentence was reduced

Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again
Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

Gloria Oladipo
Tue 7 May 2024 15.19 BST

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show.
The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the US Bureau of Prisons website.

Holmes’s sentence was reduced by more than four months, as her previous release date was set for 29 December 2032.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Holmes’s amended sentence to the Guardian but said he could not comment further due to “privacy, safety and security reasons” for inmates.
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This is the second time that Holmes has had her sentence shortened. In July, was reduced by two years.
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
The latest reduction of Holmes’s sentence still meets federal sentencing guidelines. Those guidelines mandate that people convicted of federal offenses must serve at least 85% of their sentence, regardless of reductions for good behavior.
In 2022, Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison after being convicted on four counts of defrauding investors.
She was also ordered to pay $452m in restitution to those she defrauded, but a judge delayed those payments due to Holmes’s “limited financial resources”.

Holmes’s lawyers have already begun attempts to get her conviction overturned. Oral arguments for her appeal are set to begin on 11 June in a federal appeals court in San Francisco, California, NBC News reported.
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Holmes founded Theranos, a multibillion-dollar biotech startup that claimed it could run blood tests with only a single drop of blood.
Once hailed as a biotech innovator, Holmes as well as Sunny Balwani, her co-executive and former romantic partner, faced legal consequences after reporting from the Wall Street Journal and others found that the technology used by Theranos was fraudulent.
Balwani was convicted in a separate trial for his actions in the Theranos scheme, and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
He also had two years reduced from his sentence in July and will be released from federal prison on 1 April 2034, according to the prisons bureau website.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/elizabeth-holmes-prison-sentence