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Elizabeth Holmes fails to overturn her Theranos fraud conviction

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.

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Imagine being so incompetent you can't even arrange for a pardon under fucking Trump.
- The problem is that she screwed rich people over. If she stuck with just screwing over everyone else she would have been fine.
  
  I remember reading about Theranos starting up, watched the documentary and podcast. The false positives (or negatives) was appalling.
- Hey now, let's not ignore how deeply misogynistic the Trump administration is. That definitely plays a role.
- She’s a blonde woman so he probably had some… special quid pro quo
  
  I think you mean quid pro ho.
- Just donate half the stolen money to his Super PAC and you get to keep the other half

She should've just announced a presidential bid the moment she got charged. Would've given her another 4 years.
- .. in prison? Another 4 years in prison, right?
  
  Nope, we're talking the USA, so she would have become president
- Didn’t she get pregnant twice to avoid prison?

She shoulda bought Twitter when she had the chance I guess.

Is it just me or does she look like Zuckerburg in a wig?
- Haha no, I saw that too.
  I'm beginning to recognize the "face" of psychopathy and it isn't healthy, I feel.
  Like, put me in a room with 100 strangers and I have a pretty sharp radar for billionaires and killers.
  
  Huh, she looks like Stephen Miller to me.
- She looks too human compared to Zuckerberg.
  
  Hide the cleavage and look again.

if i had a nickel for every deep-voiced woman named Elizabeth wrapped up in a massive fraudulent enterprise, I'd have ten cents but it's still weird that it happened twice
(the other liz)
- She fakes the deep-voice

Her one fatal misstep was being a woman.
- 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
  
  Gestures toward the White House and Tesla.

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