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Jury takes fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes's ex-partner

The fate of hard-nosed technology executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani is now in the hands of a jury that will weigh criminal charges alleging he joined disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, his former partner, in an elaborate fraud that jarred Silicon Valley

The Independent UK

Trial of Elizabeth Holmes' partner, ex-lover nears climax

A jury on Tuesday is scheduled to hear closing arguments in the trial of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former Theranos official charged with teaming up with his secret lover, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, to carry out a massive fraud

The Independent UK

Don the con: Trump voters are victims

Trump shook down his supporters for $250 million with lies, proving the old adage: "You can't cheat an honest man"

Salon

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Review: The Dropout

Hulu's limited TV series on Elizabeth Holmes shows how regulators failed to catch massive, dangerous medical fraud.

Reason

Elizabeth Holmes urges judge to overturn verdict and acquit her

Elizabeth Holmes asked a judge to toss out her conviction, claiming no rational juror could have found her guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud beyond a reasonable doubt.

Tribune News Service

"Stealth research” hurts good science

First Theranos, and now AI researchers, are being opaque about their work. Should we trust them?

Salon

'Not All Bad Things Are The Same Bad Thing': Why Is FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Comparing Luna To Netflix?

The CEO of one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms shared his take on the collapse of Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA) and the stablecoin TerraUSD (CRYPTO:

Benzinga

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5 unsung whistleblowers on screen

We love to hate those who refuse to follow rules. But whistleblowers for the greater good? We seem to forget them

Salon

Theranos merchandise on eBay sparks bloodlust among Elizabeth Holmes fans

Demand for products emblazoned with ‘Theranos’ logo have soared with set of five pens selling for a eye-popping $150

The Guardian - US

What comes after "The Dropout" ending

The real story continues to unfurl with the Theranos trial ongoing, and the whistleblowers taking different paths

Salon

'You hurt people!' How 'The Dropout' stuck the landing on Elizabeth Holmes' downfall

"Do you really believe that?"

Los Angeles Times

Just Gonna Say It: Even Conwomen Like Elizabeth Holmes Can’t Weasel Out Of Sexism

It’s 2022 and I’m obsessed with scammers. I’ve been obsessed with scammers since Caroline Calloway popped up on my Instagram and I became obsessed with her rose-tinted, romanticized Cambridge University life. Now, my obsession with scammers has moved on and I’ve admittedly spent the last few months binging shows like Inventing…

Pedestrian.tv

Trial begins for ex-Theranos exec Sunny Balwani

Balwani's trial began this week, with just a sliver of the attention as was afforded to the more public-facing Holmes.

Axios

How scammers and con artists became TV's laziest way to hook viewers

Once upon a time, if Hollywood told the story of your life, it was because you did something inspiring: ending British rule in India; writing one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century; being, like, really good at math.

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Evening Standard

Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

The Guardian - US

Sunny Balwani’s Theranos trial delayed after possible Covid exposure

Ex-executive faces same charges as his former romantic and business partner in Silicon Valley scandal

Salon

It's a--hole season on TV

Current ripped-from-the-headlines programming showcases unrepentant a**holes. Are they critiques or glorification?

The Guardian - US

How Theranos drama The Dropout gets scam and tech culture right

The limited series traces how Elizabeth Holmes built a house of cards from the foundation up, without indulging in feminist antihero refashioning

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The Guardian - US

Sunny Balwani trial starts two months after Elizabeth Holmes’s guilty verdict

Businessman who served as Theranos’s co-president accused of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes may have a secret way to reduce sentence

The Theranos founder heaped much of the blame for the company’s scandalous downfall on her former partner Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, whose own fraud trial begins this week

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Guardian - UK

‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

Chicago Tribune

‘The Dropout,’ Elizabeth Holmes and Hollywood’s scammer fixation

“The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried on Hulu is a retelling of the wildly dishonest rise and eventual, if belated, fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech firm Theranos. In short: Theranos raised billions on the promise that it could build a small, portable device that would change medicine forever by…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried right on the money as the tech world’s billion-dollar swindler

Hulu’s take on the crooked Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is the best of the current wave of true-crime limited series.

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