Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison

Good!

I guess her kids will see her on visiting day

Justice does exist

She had it comin’!

Will they send her to Holmesburg?

She was the definition of a sociopath

11 years in prison for a first time offender of strictly financial crime seems onerous.

r7 Exactly! If her victims were stupid enough to invest in her, it's THEIR FAULT! Why do I have to waste taxpayer money on throwing her in prison?

Neither Holmes nor Balwani had any relevant medical background and everyone knew that, right? So basically people were just gambling on professionals behind the scenes to make it work. And they probably wanted the blustering and bluffing to continue until the technology could materialize so that big investors would not lose money. But why would you have non-experts be at the head of high expertise type products? It makes no sense but it was ALWAYS true. There was never an expert in charge at Theranos. Is it for plausible deniability, so someone can overpromise and then say they didn’t know what they were talking about?

It's still a crime to defraud people, even if you think they deserve it.

Cory Booker must be posting here.

The sentencing reflects that it was more than just a financial crime. It's not like she was selling counterfeit purses, she was fine with people receiving inaccurate lab results as long as it sustained her charade.

r12 That's why we have doctors that go to 10 years of medical school. It should be on them for being IDIOTS, not my tax dollars.

Does this increase the value of Amanda’s Emmy?

[quote] 11 years in prison for a first time offender of strictly financial crime seems onerous.

There was such a huge amount of money loss - that alone put her sentencing guideline at 80 years. But the statutory mx was 20 years.

This was a crime that spanned such a long period of time which is a factor as well as the number of victims another factor. The fact she was a leader of the enterprise is another factor. Plus she showed no remorse.

It should be onerous. She'll be back in the community in 8 - 9 years. The she can become an expert in prisons and make a fortune that way.

Will her voice deepen further while she's banged up in Clit Clink?

Big Marge, serving 50 years for stamping her lesbian partner to death is going to have some fun with Ms Holmes.

She should have just tried to overthrow the government. She could be running for president instead of going to prison.

Ha ha .. she will serve at least 9 years 😝

B-b-but I'm a MOTHER!

The most cynical pregnancy this side of any Hillaria Baldwin's efforts.

They drove an employee to suicide, r7.

Tyler Schultz, George’s grandson, feared Holmes enough that he slept with a knife under his pillow.

“The FDA can and should ban laboratory-developed tests that provide clinically meaningless results. As part of this process, it should evaluate any software that generates interpretations.“

The problem is bigger than Theranos and Holmes…but hopefully will be addressed with the Valid Act.

More examples of Theranos like companies in the link.

Dead eyes

R12 It’s said in the article that

[quote]Holmes was found not guilty on two counts of defrauding patients and one count of conspiracy to defraud patients.

Their technology didn’t work and produced inaccurate results, so they used Siemens technology to do the blood tests and gave those results to patients, IIRC. But they defrauded the investors telling them their technology did work.

I like her..

R24, there were at least a few cases where they gave patients wrong results. I remember that distinctly from Carreyou's book.

Honestly, I’m a bit afraid that within three months she’ll be running that prison and all those ladies will be her bitches.

Elizabeth is Elon level Autistic

[quote] 11 years in prison for a first time offender of strictly financial crime seems onerous.

-B. Madoff, first time offender of strictly financial crime

I was hoping for 15 years... but at least it's more than 10. She won't actually go to prison until April of next year, after she gives birth.

What are the chances she has some kind of "medical emergency" after birth that she leverages to delay serving her time even further, which buys her enough time to get preggers AGAIN?

Seize her and fuck her!

When giving testimony, did she resort to her normal voice?

R6 it reminds me of closeted male actors who lower their voices too in order to appear straight and masculine.

R26, there is a massive problem with lab tests being under-regulated. Theranos wasn’t just a fraud though. They actually did have scientist employees staying up all night trying to make the tests work, under pressure. The problem was the extremely small amount of blood used, and that since that was what was patented, that’s what they had to work with.

It’s also a problem with patent law, that someone like Holmes could file patent rights for several specific ideas when she had no specific inventions. It actually blocks innovation.

But she’s not the only one who did it, and many other companies that gave bad test results were given just a slap on the wrist, if exposed at all, due to under-regulation.

“Earlier in the day, Erika Cheung, a former lab associated turned whistleblower, concluded her testimony after three days on the stand. Cheung recalled that frequent quality control failures in the lab created substantial delays in test results for patients.

"We had people sleeping in their cars because it was just taking too long," Cheung testified. "Every few days we were having to run samples over and over again."

“More generally, agencies do not know what other agencies are doing: the USPTO is unlikely to know that the FDA has found an approach predictable (or unpredictable) or a method dangerous, or even that clinical trials are under way or a drug has been approved.“

She will be out in five.

Don't fuck with rich people's money. That's what she's being punished for. I think she'll try to run

Of course. This is a patriarchal world. The punishments are always going to be swift and 10Xs worse for women while men who commit the same or worse offenses have virtually no consequences.

R38 - her MALE partner was convicted of even more counts and will probably serve more time.

Dang, she's carryin' low.

Hate this money grubbing scammer BUT 11years when PEDOPHILES, RAPISTS and MURDERERS get less? How is Casey Anthony walking around scot free making documentaries for peacock when she bound her baby and killed her?

[quote]there were at least a few cases where they gave patients wrong results. I remember that distinctly from Carreyou's book.

Yes. The financial fraud is impossible to disentangle from the medical fraud. She was told by genuine experts as an undergrad that what she sought to do was impossible, and it was explained to her why, and she didn't care. She wanted the notoriety and the fundraising spoils.

A few patients who received inaccurate results testified at the trial. One was a woman who was wrongly told she was miscarrying; another was wrongly told she had HIV. A man discontinued blood thinners after receiving incorrect results.

Had the fraud continued, it would have wreaked enormous havoc on the lives of unsuspecting patients and their families. Yes, there were Theranos employees frantically using other means to obtain more accurate results, and Holmes should thank her lucky stars that others cared more about the integrity of results than she did. She'd have a slew of additional civil suits to settle otherwise.

R41 Why is Casey Anthony free? Because a jury acquitted her. Right or wrong, that's our legal system.

I don't have a problem with her "fake deep" voice. It's the high-pitched nasal "baby" or "little girl" voices that are irritating--and they're just as "put on" (even by middle-aged women like Christine Blasey Ford).

Off topic for a second...The video at R6 has a graphic that says "The Top 10 Roles that Attract Psychopaths" and surgeons are #5. I don't understand that at all. And journalists are #6 and chefs #9? I wouldn't have expected that. I don't know if I believe that list, but I really hope it isn't true about surgeons. Anyone know what that means?

R45, you might find this article interesting. The neurosurgeon Henry Marsh is indeed a great chronicler of what makes surgeons different (and somewhat scarier) than the rest of us.

Rich connected white lady, victimless crime, I’ll give it 3 1/2 years. She’ll probably start a prison book club or some shit.

Thanks R46. I can't handle the blood-and-guts details of that article, but I read the psychopath parts. Very interesting.

“Recently, an investigation of prenatal LDTs used to detect chromosomal microdeletions associated with a wide range of devastating disorders revealed alarmingly high frequency of false-positive results (above 80% in most cases). This is a concern, as studies show that many people who test positive for these prenatal screens undergo an abortion without getting a confirmatory test.“

A law from 1976 that was meant mostly for a very small number of tests to diagnose rare diseases still has not been updated and the lack of regulation has broad impacts. That’s what the Valid Act now in front of Congress is supposed to address.

r49 Why can't doctors just decide which test they want to use on their own? Why do we need to pass a law about it?

R38 no lies on this site plz!

R50, the unregulated tests are direct to consumer. But generally speaking you can’t just not regulate medicine. Things were done that way once with disastrous results. There should be a United Nations of doctors. If everyone can speak publicly less would be covered up. Whistleblower protections should be made stronger.

Manufactured by Bailey Radium Laboratory in New Jersey, each bottle of Radithor was guaranteed to contain two microcuries of radium, the new kid on the medical block and still blossoming with potential. Radithor was widely advertised as a cure-all for some 150 maladies, including dyspepsia, high blood pressure, and impotence. It also didn't hurt that the doctor, along with every other physician who prescribed Radithor, received a generous 17 percent kickback from the manufacturer.

Grifting was in her blood. Her father is a former Enron executive. No joke.

R47 A victimless crime? Knowingly providing fraudulent machines that told pregnant women they had syphilis?

Selfish of her to have 2 kids.

She a bitch.

^^A bitch who made friends in very high places.

DHE JUST GAVE BIRTH!

But, but, but…she’s a white woman!