Aww...she's a good little church girl. The jury can't send her to jail now, can they?Holmes, who was romantically involved with Balwani for over a decade, testified that their breakup was “a process.”
“He showed up at the church I would go to at night and at the Dish, which is where I used to run around Stanford,” Holmes said. “The places I would go outside work.”
As she stepped down from the witness stand, Holmes turned to her right and looked directly to the jury box, where eight men and four women have listened to three months of testimony inside the San Jose courtroom. In the coming weeks, they will decide Holmes’ fate.
“You know that at the first sign of trouble, crooks cash out, criminals cover up, and rats flee a sinking ship,” Downey said. But Holmes was a devoted CEO who believed that her company was going to change the world. Instead of running, she brought in experts to scrutinize the testing program, Downey noted. “Are those the actions of someone who had been engaged in a conspiracy to defraud people?”
She might well get strung up, it's in the jury's hands now, what shocked me is how this company, without a working prototype that indepenant evaluation could verify, grew to billions of dollars.what a farce. she knows exactly what she was doing, and she knows exactly what she is doing now. she must be a psychopath.
i feel like its sexism. if this was a dude, they would string him up.
That doesn't surprise me at all. What surprises me is that it doesn't happen every week.She might well get strung up, it's in the jury's hands now, what shocked me is how this company, without a working prototype that indepenant evaluation could verify, grew to billions of dollars.
That doesn't surprise me at all. What surprises me is that it doesn't happen every week.
Journalists were a party to Theranos’ failure, too, since they quoted people saying nice things about Holmes and the company. (Perhaps that was meant to suggest that Holmes used media reports—which she manipulated through selective disclosure—as a sort of moral compass telling her whether she was on the right track?)
lol no, she pissed off / commited fraud against the only protected class in Amerikkka, the rich
Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, terms that are likely to be served concurrently. Ms. Holmes, 37, is expected to appeal. A sentencing date is expected to be set at a hearing on the three hung charges next week.
Stephanie Hinds, a U.S. attorney, said in a statement that the guilty verdicts reflected Ms. Holmes’s “culpability in this large-scale investor fraud.” On Monday, jurors told the court that they were deadlocked on three of the charges of defrauding investors. Judge Davila pushed them to continue deliberating, but they were unable to agree.
I haven't looked into it, but I'm wondering if the defrauding patients thing hinges on "screening" tests vs "diagnostic" tests. Some screening tests can have appreciable false positive rates, but all screening tests are supposed to be followed up with diagnostic tests (ie, higher sensitivity and specificity) to confirm a condition.
Article is dated May 2012, I don't see her name on that list.Well, Ms. Holmes just made it to this list:
10 CEOs who went from the boardroom to the cell block (nbcnews.com)
Was also seeing a lot of peer reviewers warning "Something's fishy" because the company was making a lot of promises that were forever being delayed. Wondering if she was doing the "Say I have a miracle product, gather a bunch of money from investors, then actually start trying to make the product I said I had" scheme?Just last week read a cover story on her and the company (might have been in Fast Company or Wired magazine) and how she's going to change the medical industry. It would be something if the devices turn out to be crap.
In Silicon Valley parlance, this is known as "fake it until you make it."Was also seeing a lot of peer reviewers warning "Something's fishy" because the company was making a lot of promises that were forever being delayed. Wondering if she was doing the "Say I have a miracle product, gather a bunch of money from investors, then actually start trying to make the product I said I had" scheme?
He also clarified in the hearing that his unusual visit wasn't motivated to help Holmes but to promote healing.
"I don’t want to help Ms. Holmes," Rosendorff said. "She’s not somebody who can be helped. At this point she needs to help herself. She needs to pay her debt to society."
At another point, Rosendorff added that he did feel sorry that Holmes' children could grow up without a mother if she is sent to prison. Holmes gave birth to her first child late last year as her trial was nearing its end. In the hearing last month, she appeared visibly pregnant with her second child.
I suppose her reasoning could be that if she ends up in jail, she would be past menopause by the time she gets out. So I guess she did the prudent thing?Having kid or two is a great way to mitigate a sentence for criminals in general, leaving me to suspect some simply have one on purpose.