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Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani is sentenced to nearly 13 years for his role in Theranos fraud

A jury found Elizabeth Holmes' former business and romantic partner guilty in July on all 12 felony counts of defrauding Theranos investors and the patients that used the company's faulty blood tests.

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Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison

Judge Edward Davila described Sunny Balwani and Elizabeth Holmes as ‘co-leaders’ in a scheme to defraud Theranos investors

The Independent UK

Ex-Theranos president Sunny Balwani sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison

Balwani in July was convicted on 12 counts of conspiracy and fraud.

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Commentary: What Sam Bankman-Fried’s grungy T-shirt reveals about genius and gender

Is slovenliness an index of genius? This is one of the questions raised by the downfall of “crypto wunderkind” Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, as he is known.

Los Angeles Times

Holmes' former partner faces sentencing in Theranos case

A former Theranos executive learns Wednesday whether he will be punished as severely as his former lover and business partner for peddling the company’s bogus blood-testing technology that duped investors and endangered patients

The Independent UK

The 50 best TV shows of 2022

It’s here! The No 1 television series of the year is revealed – and it is a delectable dish indeed

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Holmes appeals Theranos fraud conviction, prison term

Elizabeth Holmes appealed her criminal fraud conviction, two weeks after she was ordered to serve 11 1/4 years in prison for deceiving investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos Inc.

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Best podcasts of the week: How to die on screen, according to the stars of Halloween to Stranger Things

In this week’s newsletter: Actor Michael Nathanson hears from his peers on what happens when your character meets their end in Playing Dead. Plus: five podcasts adapted for TV

The Guardian - UK

Edward Norton in Glass Onion brings to mind one man in particular – just say it

Norton says his trillionaire tech bro is an amalgamation of three people – but everyone agrees, one stands out

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes could stay out of prison for a year or more: legal experts

When Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison last week, he ordered that she surrender for imprisonment April 27. But legal experts say Holmes could remain free well past that date.

Tribune News Service

Is America finally sick of billionaires?

Between Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, Donald Trump and Elizabeth Holmes, who still believes that money = brains?

Salon

Commentary: The practice of proclaiming virtue while amassing wealth and power is not new

What do Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried and Al Capone have in common? No, they are not all convicted felons. Capone did serve time for tax evasion, and Holmes was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding the public through her blood-testing company Theranos. But Bankman-Fried, founder of the…

Chicago Tribune

Read what a judge told Elizabeth Holmes before sending her to prison for 11 years

Read exactly what the judge told former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes before he sentenced her to 11 years in federal prison.

WEKU

‘This place is heaven’: Judge recommends Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes be sent to favourable Texas prison camp

‘If you have to go, it’s a good place to go,’ a prison consultant said

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How Silicon Valley fervor explains Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year prison sentence

Raising hundreds of millions dollars sends a startup's valuation soaring. It can also make serious prison time all but inevitable for those in Holmes' situation.

Fortune

Elizabeth Holmes’s 11.25-year sentence will send shock waves through the tech industry

Court observers said the judge intended to set an example.

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Elizabeth Holmes’ humiliation is part of her punishment

Upon hearing that Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, social media erupted with vituperative glee. A lot of people seem to think that the 38-year-old Theranos founder, convicted of fraud earlier this year, is getting what she deserves.

Evening Standard

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for 11 years for fraud

Ms Holmes said Theranos had developed a test to diagnose hundreds of diseases with just a few drops of blood, claims which were proved false

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Disgraced Elizabeth Holmes jailed for more than 11 years over Theranos scam

One-time world's youngest female billionaire sobs as US judge says her company was dashed by 'misrepresentations, hubris and just plain lies'

Salon

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11+ years

Holmes, who already plans to appeal, is scheduled to report to prison on April 27, 2023

Tribune News Service

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for felony fraud

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to 135 months — or more than 11 years — in prison, following her conviction for felony fraud in one of the most closely and widely watched trials in Silicon Valley history.

The Independent UK

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Judge Edward Davila told the heavily pregnant former Theranos boss: ‘Failure is normal. But failure by fraud is not OK’

Axios

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud

The Theranos founder's attorneys had been seeking house arrest.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes: What convictions and acquittals led up to her sentencing

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes walked into her criminal trial in federal court in San Jose in September 2021 charged with 12 counts of fraud in connection with her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup. Four months later, she walked out guilty on four counts, after a jury found her liable for…

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Holmes faces sentencing for defrauding Theranos investors

A federal prosecutor declared Holmes deserves a severe punishment for engineering a scam that he described as one of the most egregious white-collar crimes ever committed in Silicon Valley

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