The founder and former CEO of the disgraced blood diagnostics company Theranos is facing a dozen fraud charges.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of the disgraced blood diagnostics company Theranos, might accuse her ex-boyfriend of mentally and sexually abusing her, thereby clouding her judgement during the time she allegedly committed fraud, according to court documents that were unsealed ahead of her criminal trial.
Balwani was Theranos's president and chief operating officer, and is facing the same set of charges. He's due to go on trial next year. As part of Holmes’ defense strategy, her attorneys may introduce evidence from a clinical psychologist, Mindy Mechanic, regarding “a mental condition bearing on guilt.” According to the documents, Mechanic, an expert on “interpersonal violence,” could speak to whether Holmes’ relationship with Balwani “was consistent with intimate partner abuse” and also discuss “present diagnoses of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and anxiety.
After much of the now-defunct company’s alleged misdeeds were shrouded in secrecy, hundreds of documents in Holmes’ 3-year-old criminal case were filed under seal with no information about who filed the documents, what they contained, or why they needed to be kept private. John Cline, one of Holmes’ attorneys, said at the time that some documents could be made public, but in a filing last week her defense team argued that they should not be unsealed until after the jury is selected.
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