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Holmes stretch: Theranos’s founder convicted

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Elizabeth Holmes, a Huckster Figure, Became a Defendant as Her Trial Started

Elizabeth holmes created a company to make blood tests more convenient and more formdable. In the process, she became a multi billionaire. But now there are new questions about the accuracy of those tests. Behind the scenes, the company wasn't actually using its little gismo called edison to analyze blood. When miss holmes invited vice president joe byden to see company, she built a fake lab for him to visit. After seven days of jury deliberation, she was found guilty of four out of 11 charges of fraud,. each carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years.

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