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Elizabeth Holmes to seek mental disease/insanity

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wilfred:

--- Quote from: passedpawn on September 20, 2021, 04:50:50 am ---Read that book Bad Blood.  I zipped through it a few years ago when it came out, quite a page-turner.  Holmes is quite guilty of fraud, and Sunny (her boyfriend) is equally culpable.

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I'm reading it now. It is a page-turner. There has to be a movie made about this. You couldn't make it up.

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on September 01, 2021, 01:44:01 am ---
--- Quote from: m3vuv on August 31, 2021, 12:55:01 pm ---Still wouldn't kick her out of bed for farting tho!!

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Ladies with deep, gravelly voices aren't my thing. Not since...
Well, lets just say what happened in Soho stays in Soho.

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El-Oh-El-Ay Lola



-Pat

wilfred:
I came across another podcast by the WSJ reporter John Carreyrou who wrote the book. He narrates the podcast and it is the better of the two I am following. It is called Bad Blood: The Final Chapter and takes the story beyond where the book left off.

In the episode Guilty Conscience it is revealed that EH wrote in an email to herself "really smart people picked off mado, not you". It is a bit cryptic and not revealed what is meant by mado. But does it refer to Bernie Madoff? Is it an admission she knew?

I do recommend it to those interested in the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.
https://www.threeuncannyfour.com/show/bad-blood/

oPossum:

--- Quote ---SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup. Holmes was convicted on four of 11 counts.
She was acquitted on four counts and the jury could not reach a decision on three counts.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jury-theranos-trial-cannot-agree-verdicts-all-charges-2022-01-03/

SiliconWizard:
That is interesting. I'd be curious to see the details. "Conspiring to defraud investors" usually requires making use of one's particular influence, network, credibility, etc, to persuade others to invest (in other words, having some position of power and authority), and as I already mentioned (I know many did not agree), I'm wondering how and where her influence could come from, because to me, she had neither power (at the beginning at least) nor authority, so I'm still very curious how this was determined that she was able to defraud seasoned investors on her own.

Not saying she didn't deserve it, eh. Just still really curious about this particular point. I don't doubt she's a bit nuts and maybe "evil" too, but being nuts is usually not enough to gain power, authority and credibility.

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