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John Carreyrou
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Journalist and bestselling author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Former reporter.
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I’m late to the party but congrats to and for Dead In The Water, a fascinating read about insurance fraud on the high seas. Highly recommend.
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Perhaps she should have consulted Carlos Ghosn for his thoughts on a more sophisticated escape
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This also illustrates my earlier point about the difference in treatment between SBF and Holmes. He’s under house arrest with a bracelet monitor while she’s free as a bird post conviction and sentencing.
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Not surprised… Clearly the plan was to travel under a fake passport since her real one was confiscated in 2018 as part of the original bail terms.
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A pile of criminology research shows that men receive harsher treatment than women in the criminal justice system for the same crime.
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You can make the argument that more money was lost in FTX but that can’t account for all of it. Is it because SDNY is prosecuting this versus the comparatively more provincial US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco?
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Even now, as a convicted felon, Holmes is still freer of movement than SBF.
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Her bail was $500,000. His bail is $250 million.
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It took 2 1/2 years for Holmes to be charged. SBF was charged within a month.
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The difference between SBF’s and Elizabeth Holmes’s treatment is striking. He was marched into court with ankle shackles today and will be under house arrest with a bracelet monitor. Holmes could move about as she pleased and was never cuffed.
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Instead of throwing a talented 19-year-old kid under the bus, Berhalter should look in the mirror. His coaching was tactically naive and his subs were embarrassing. I’ll take Gio Reyna over Shaq Moore and Haji Wright any day of the week.
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Balwani will be in prison before Holmes. He has to report to the Bureau of Prisons on March 15, six weeks before Holmes.
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I'm about to press "send" on a 36-page afterword to Bad Blood. The new edition of the book, complete with this new afterword, will be out soon.
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The long-running Theranos saga is finally over!
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That's a year and a half more than Holmes got, presumably to reflect the fact that he was convicted on more counts.
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Sunny Bałwani just got sentenced to 155 months in prison (12 years and 11 months).
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“‘Of course it was fraud,’ Mr. Murdoch said in an email after the sentencing.”
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“Silicon Valley relies on trust.”
My thanks to for stepping in live to talk about the Elizabeth Holmes verdict, and what tech can learn from #Theranos
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Holmes doesn’t have to report to prison until April. She will have given birth in the meantime.
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There will be a hearing at a later date to determine the amount of restitution Holmes will owe her victims.
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“This case is so troubling on so many levels,” Davila said. “Was there a loss of moral compass here?”
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Judge Davila mused out loud repeatedly about what had caused Holmes to commit fraud. “What it hubris? Was it intoxication with fame?”
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Judge Davila made clear that future deterrence was a big part of his rationale for the sentence. He called the Theranos fraud “a cautionary tale” for Silicon Valley.
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Tyler Shultz’s father gave an impromptu speech when the judge asked whether any victims wanted to speak. It was emotional. Holmes spoke too. She cried.
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The 11 years and 3 months will be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
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There will be a hearing at a later date about restitution.
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Elizabeth Holmes just got sentenced to 135 months in prison (11.25 years)
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No fewer than 9 members of Holmes’s $30 million defense team are on hand.
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So, as we waited quietly to enter the courtroom, Tyler Shultz’s parents stood right in front of me, the Holmes clan was to my right and Balwani’s lawyer was right behind me…
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And I’m signing books…
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It’s Elizabeth Holmes sentencing day… A lot of press already at the courthouse…
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This is @profgalloway at his best. Straightforward, fearless candor splashed with industry, tech and life wisdom. Highly recommend, he nails it in two minutes.
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The parents of Tyler Shultz also provided a victim impact statement. It says Holmes took a « wrecking ball » to their family. « The most heart breaking of all is to hear your son describe that he contemplated suicide because he felt abandoned, isolated, threatened and hopeless »
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That should cut against the letters from friends and family that make Holmes sound like Mother Theresa…
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Elizabeth Holmes’s own aunt, who had invested in Theranos, provided a victim impact statement. She wants her niece to do real time.
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Elizabeth Holmes's criminal defense has apparently cost more than $30 million. That's what she owes her lawyers, according to the probation officers' pre-sentencing report.
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