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11 years in prison for the “brilliant” Elizabeth Holmes

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Elizabeth Holmes at the Tribunal

The fall was announced long ago and confirmed by a judge in the USA. Shocked Elizabeth, pregnant, sentenced to 38 years.

Theranos🇧🇷 The company that was supposed to revolutionize the medical diagnostics industry has been created Elizabeth Holmes.

Businesswoman appeared as the promise of the business world, on a global scale. would nova Steve Jobsaccording to experts.

But in the end it was fraud🇧🇷 did fake dating and misleading investors, in product demos, in media articles… Everywhere.

He advertised a supposed portable blood test equipment, test Edisonwhich could perform in-depth blood tests on a few drops of fingerstick blood, which revolutionized the blood testing industry.

Era FALSE🇧🇷 The potential turned out to be less than stated. Such equipment performed only a few tests, and his company performed most of the tests on patients with equipment manufactured by other companies.

Like the part where Elizabeth Holmes announced that The US military has already used your technology.

Deceived doctors and patients, specially. And he was exaggerating when he talked about Theranos’ financials.

starred in develop and long fraud which, in the opinion of the US authorities, exaggerated or provided false information about technological, business and financial indicators.

First he paid $500 thousand fine and she was banned from being a company director for 10 years – while her company, Theranos, closed (it reached a value of 8.5 billion dollars).

This was in 2018. Earlier this year, Elizabeth Holmes was considered guilty out of three fraud allegations wiretapping and charges of CONSPIRACY commit wiretapping fraud.

He did not consider the verdict fair, he asked for a new trial, but the outcome was really negative for him: 11 years in prison🇧🇷 The decision became known this Friday in a California court.

“I am devastated by the mistakes I made. I feel deep pain what people have been through because of me, I have failed. I regret my mistakes with every cell of my body, ”one of them said in court. shocked 38-year-old businesswoman – who pregnant.

The judge told Elizabeth Holmes that she “brilliant”🇧🇷 But “it is not good to commit fraud.”

Nuno Teixeira da Silva, ZAP //

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