Holmes has suffered ‘extreme public ignominy, financial bankruptcy and the terrifying prospect of incarceration while the mother of a new baby,’ filing says.
Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is a “humble, hardworking, and compassionate woman who deeply wants to give what she can to the world,” and should be sent to prison for a maximum of 18 months or not at all, she argued in a court filing a week ahead of her sentencing.
Holmes, 38, founded Theranos at age 19, and gathered hundreds of millions of dollars in investments based on false claims that the startup’s technology could conduct a full range of tests using only a few drops of blood. She is to be sentenced Nov. 18.Judge Edward Davila will impose a multi-year prison sentence, possibly mitigated because she has a 16-month-old son. According to a letter to Davila included with her filing, from her partner Billy Evans, Holmes is pregnant again.
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