Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Set to Begin Her 11-Year Prison Sentence In Texas Today Today is the agreed-upon day for Elizabeth Holmes to report to federal prison in Bryan, Texas — the same minimum-security facility where "Real Housewife" Jen Shah is serving time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Walgreens Settles Theranos Consumer Fraud Case Walgreens has settled a case brought by consumers who received Theranos blood tests; the NTSB is looking into that small-plane crash near Half Moon Bay on Saturday; and Steph Curry just received the NBA's Social Justice Champion award.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes May Report to Prison Right After Memorial Day; Judge Orders $450M In Restitution The Ninth Circuit also handed down a decision yesterday denying Holmes's bid to remain free pending her appeal. And her legal team is now asking for a prison-reporting date of May 30.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Buy Her More Time Before Prison Report Date As they await the near-guaranteed denial of her appeal to the Ninth Circuit, attorneys for convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes have made another legal maneuver that appears to give her another few weeks of freedom.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's New Daughter Is Named Invicta, and Other Revelations From a Strange New NYT Profile As she awaits the near-inevitable denial of her appeal to the Ninth Circuit, after which she will get a new prison reporting date, Elizabeth Holmes is relaxing in San Diego, bonding with her newborn, and apparently trying to rehabilitate the public perception of herself.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Another Last-Ditch Appeal, Earning Her a Possible Few Extra Weeks Before Entering Prison With few options left but one last legal reprieve available, Elizabeth Holmes has avoided having to report to prison tomorrow, but she likely won't avoid it for long.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes's Ex-Partner In Business and the Bedroom, Begins 13-Year Prison Sentence Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Is Almost Certainly Headed to Prison In Two Weeks A federal judge on Monday, fairly predictably, rejected Elizabeth Holmes's semi-final bid to delay her check-in date for prison, but no doubt her high-priced lawyers have one more appeal in them.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Now Looking to Get Out of Possible $878 Million Restitution Bill Yeah, so, Elizabeth Holmes doesn't really think she should have to pay back the bilked investors who lost money because of Theranos's collapse, and her lawyers' latest gambit is to try to get out of her having to pay any restitution at all.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Had Her Second Baby and Her Lawyers Are Still Trying to Get Prison Entry Delayed New court documents reveal that convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes now has two young children, and also, maybe she and Billy Evans aren't legally married after all?
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Booked One-Way Ticket to Mexico After Conviction, Prosecutors Say As federal prosecutors push to get Elizabeth Holmes more quickly into prison, they have revealed in a new court filing that she booked a one-way ticket to Mexico last year not long after her conviction on four counts of fraud.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years In Theranos Fraud — 2 More Years Than Holmes A federal judge has deemed the actions of former Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to be a little bit more egregious than his partner in fraud Elizabeth Holmes — two years' worse, to be exact.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes May Be Shipped to Texas For Her Prison Sentence, Likely at Her Own Attorney’s Request The disgraced Theranos founder’s legal team has seemingly swayed her judge to recommend she serve her time at a Texas correctional facility described as “heaven,” but it’s ultimately up to the Bureau of Prisons where she goes.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years In Federal Prison It was a bad day to be Elizabeth Holmes, as she appeared in a San Jose federal courtroom Friday to learn her fate, which is a sentence that is nearly as harsh as prosecutors were asking for.
Business & Tech In Dueling Sentencing Memos, Prosecutors Push For Elizabeth Holmes to Get 15 Years, While Defense Brings Up Recently Deceased Dog After a federal judge last week denied Elizabeth Holmes a new trial, quashing a last-ditch — and highly aggressive — effort by her defense team to keep her out of prison longer, it all comes down to her sentence.
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence Calls Off Long-Anticipated Elizabeth Holmes Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has been on something of an acting hiatus, quietly decided to shelve a planned Elizabeth Holmes biopic and dramatization of the meltdown of Theranos, saying the story's already been told.
Business & Tech OMG Elizabeth Holmes Showed Up In Court Looking Pregnant, Again As Elizabeth Holmes stares down a prison term of an indeterminate amount of years, she remained smiling as she showed up in court Monday for an evidentiary hearing that's a last-bid attempt by her attorneys to get her a new trial. And, she seems to be possibly pregnant yet again.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing Set For Nov. 18; Prosecution Witness Who Expressed Remorse Angered By New Subpoena A prosecution witness who showed up at Elizabeth Holmes's doorstep in August seeming to express remorse over his testimony in her trial has lashed back at her attorneys over a new subpoena of his phone and email records.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Succeeds In Getting Her Sentencing Delayed The latest gambit from attorneys representing Elizabeth Holmes appears to have had its intended effect, and the judge in her case has offered to have a brief hearing with a prosecution witness who sounded like he wanted to recant testimony, but then didn't.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Motion For New Trial After 'Remorseful' Prosecution Witness Shows Up at Her House Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes' Former Boyfriend and Business Partner Sunny Balwani Found Guilty of 12 Out of 12 Fraud Counts The San Jose jury in the federal trial of former Theranos President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani found Balwani guilty of 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy Thursday morning.
SF News Theranos Exec Sunny Balwani's Fraud Trial Kicks Off Just In Time for Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes Series 'The Dropout' Hulu's new series about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos disaster, The Dropout, premieres Thursday. And then next week, Holmes's former lover and business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, heads to trial.
Business & Tech Will Elizabeth Holmes Face Stiff Sentence, or Will Judge Go Easy On Her Because of Baby? The specter of the Theranos collapse could linger on both with the upcoming trial of alleged co-conspirator Sunny Bulwani, and with Holmes's sentencing, which could come in mid-2022. But her jail time could be delayed pending an appeal.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty On Four Counts of Fraud, Not Guilty On Four Others, Jury Remained Hung on Three The verdict is in, at least two-thirds of one, for Elizabeth Holmes, and while she'll surely appeal, some time in the clink looks fairly inevitable for the disgraced entrepreneur.
