Summary
Elizabeth Holmes lost her appeal to overturn her fraud conviction, with a federal court ruling there were no legal missteps in her trial.
The court also upheld the conviction of her former partner, Sunny Balwani, and ordered both to pay $452 million in restitution.
Holmes, serving an 11-year sentence, falsely claimed her startup Theranos had revolutionary blood-testing technology.
The fraud, exposed in 2015, became one of Silicon Valley’s biggest scandals, leading to Theranos’ collapse and widespread media coverage, including books, documentaries, and a TV series.
Her one fatal misstep was being a woman.
Yeah, the 9 billion dollar fraud and countless known misdiagnoses (causing untold suffering) weren’t the problem, being a woman was.
You’re full of shit
*Gestures toward the White House and Tesla.*