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June 29, 2019 01:00 pm

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes To Stand Trial In 2020

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the now-defunct biotech unicorn Theranos, will face trial in federal court next summer with penalties of up to 20 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. Jury selection will begin July 28, 2020, according to U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila, who announced the trial will commence in August 2020 in a San Jose federal court Friday morning. Holmes and former Theranos president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani were indicted by a grand jury last June with 11 criminal charges in total. Two of those charges were conspiracy to commit wire fraud (against investors, and against doctors and patients). The remaining nine are actual wire fraud, with amounts ranging from the cost of a lab test to $100 million. Bloomberg says Holmes' legal team plans to argue that The Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou "had an undue influence on federal regulators," and "went beyond reporting the Theranos story." "The jury should be aware that an outside actor, eager to break a story, and portray the story as a work of investigative journalism, was exerting influence on the regulatory process in a way that appears to have warped the agencies' focus on the company and possibly biased the agencies' findings against it," her attorneys wrote, per Bloomberg. "The agencies' interactions with Carreyrou thus go to the heart of the government's case."

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