The founder and former CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes faces 11 years in prison for defrauding investors.
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The unravelling of Theranos began in 2015, when John Carreyrou, then an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, exposed the company’s false claims in a series of articles.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison
Holmes' meteoric rise once landed her on the covers of business magazines that hailed her as the next Steve Jobs , the disgraced Theranos CEO was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors.
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Elizabeth Holmes, 37, was convicted on January 3 on three counts of fraud and one count of conspiring to defraud private investors in the company. She remains free on a $500,000 bond secured by properties.
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John Carreyrou’s award-winning book examined the story of a startupreneur who shot to fame by manipulating the flaws in Silicon Valley.
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For Holmes, everything came down to how the jury interpreted her intent. During prosecutors’ closing argument on Dec. 16, Schenk argued that Holmes deliberately deceived investors, patients and advertisers with the pharmaceutical validation reports, faked technology demonstrations and inaccurate marketing materials.
A sentencing date is expected to be set at a hearing on the three hung charges next week.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, 37, was found guilty of tricking investors into pouring money into what she said was a revolutionary testing system.
Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, terms that are likely to be served concurrently. Elizabeth Holmes, 37, is expected to appeal
Surekha Gangakhedkar, an ex-Theranos scientist, testified in court on September 17 that Holmes pushed her to validate test results regardless of their accuracy.
The two sides tried to sway a 12-person jury impaneled to hearing the evidence in a case airing allegations that Holmes used her startup, Theranos, as a scheme to realize her dreams of becoming rich and as famous as one of her role models, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
If convicted by a jury in a trial that begins Wednesday, Holmes could be sentenced to 20 years in prison — a stunning reversal of fortune for an entrepreneur whose wealth once was pegged at $4.5 billion.
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