A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a fraud conviction against Elizabeth Holmes. The disgraced founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos is serving an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors with false claims of what her company could achieve.

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.

  • hperrinEnglish
    16·
    12 hours ago

    Her one fatal misstep was being a woman.

    • Phoenixz
      2·
      3 hours ago

      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