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Elizabeth Holmes owes more than $25m to Theranos, lawsuit claims

Disgraced founder who was sentenced last November to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors has not paid back the money she owes

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Holmes’ judge says he won’t rule on her prison date till early next month

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ bid to stay out of prison past her scheduled April 27 incarceration date remains in play after her judge said Friday he would not issue an order until early next month.

Tribune News Service

Judge to decide in April whether to delay prison for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $100 million. Now, she has asked a judge to remain free on bail until her appeal is heard.

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Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence

The Independent UK

Theranos exec Sunny Balwani loses bid to delay prison term

A federal judge has rejected former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani’s bid to remain free while he appeals his conviction for crimes he committed during a blood-testing scam he orchestrated with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes responds to feds’ demand she pay $878 million: Crimes didn’t kill Theranos

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, fighting a $900 million restitution demand, claims her crimes were not proven to have caused her blood testing startup’s collapse, and her deceptions did not generate all the money investors poured into her firm.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes gives birth to second child and seeks to delay prison sentence

Attorneys cite Theranos founder’s two children as reasons why she should be allowed to remain free while she appeals conviction

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70% of dealmakers say that investment managers share culpability for FTX

Investors have historically been made out to be victims in court when a startup implodes. But investors think VC firms share some responsibility.

Fortune

Elizabeth Holmes has second child - seeks delay in sentence

Legal filings say that Holmes is the mother of “two very young children … her toddler and an infant”

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes has 2nd child as she tries to avoid prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes recently gave birth to her second child

The Independent UK

From Elizabeth Holmes to Samantha Azzopardi, who are the most astonishing female con artists?

The stories of these con women are as astonishing as they are unbelievable

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Holmes gives birth to second child while seeking to further delay imprisonment

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has given birth to a second child as she seeks to delay her impending imprisonment for felony fraud, according to a court filing this week.

Tribune News Service

Former Theranos exec seeks to avoid lengthy prison sentence

Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani has returned to federal court in a last-ditch attempt to stay out of prison while he's appealing a jury’s verdict convicting him of orchestrating a blood-testing hoax with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes

The Independent UK

Scammed: why the rich, famous and experts get duped more often than you think

The typical reaction to learning about how people have lost money to a con artist is “how could anyone be so gullible?” But it’s the wrong question. Fraudsters fool even the most clever and admired experts by playing on their psychological vulnerabilities.

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Feds to Elizabeth Holmes: What about that one-way ticket to Mexico?

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, defending herself against prosecutors’ claim that she tried to flee the U.S. after her 2022 fraud conviction, failed to explain her one-way ticket to Mexico, the prosecution said in a court filing Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes was ‘recklessly and incorrectly’ accused of trying to flee the country, lawyers say

Federal prosecutors “recklessly and inaccurately” accused Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes of trying to flee the U.S. after her felony-fraud conviction, using “incomplete and provably inaccurate statements of fact in support of that accusation,” her legal team said in a court filing Monday.

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US with one-way Mexico ticket, prosecutors say

New court filing says ex-Theranos founder booked flight departing 26 January last year, shortly after fraud conviction

The Independent UK

Prosecutors: Convicted CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk

Federal prosecutors say Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to stay out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors

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Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US after conviction, prosecutors claim

Government says Holmes should immediatly start 11 year prison sentence for defrauding investors

Tribune News Service

Feds say Elizabeth Holmes ‘attempted to flee’ the US with one-way ticket after conviction

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to flee the U.S. after a jury convicted her of felony fraud in early 2022, federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing.

Fortune

Stanford geneticist pays $29m for duping VC friend into investing in bogus cure for Huntington's

The first geneticist to transplant genes from one living organism to another claimed his Huntington’s Disease cure was FDA-approved to grab cash from a friend. Really, there is no cure for HD.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Democrats decry new House rules as a ‘ransom note to America’

Partisan lines divided the vote on rules, with no Democrats voting for them and only one Republican voting against. Plus, how US state agencies got funny

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Best of 2022: Why we loved these 16 shows, from Abbott Elementary to Andor

Here are some of our staff's favorite shows from this year!

The Conversation

How science fiction predicted recent high-tech developments in chemistry

Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen colour monitors on the walls of the Enterprise decades before we did the same in our living rooms.

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