Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/elizabeth-holmes-prison-sentence

Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

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Boozilla@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is unfortunate. I just hope her career is perma-dead. I could see her trying to stage a Martha Stewart style comeback when she gets out, even though she's not 10% as smart as Stewart.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Honestly the whole doing-your-time-and-kicking-it-with-Snoop has been pretty rehabilitative for ol Martha in my eyes. I don’t follow her or whatever, and she still does right-wing crap now and again, but. Nowhere near the industrial-scale fraud of Holmes.

That said 2032 is still a long way off, especially when you’d just recently decided to have a child as a last-ditch attempt to stay out of prison. I guess the Theranos board are all laughing all the way to the bank tho, aren’t they.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Where is she getting the money to afford these appeal lawyers? Wasn’t she sued until she was broke?

SeabassDan@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I don't think really rich people ever truly go broke, they just lose all visible cash or assets and have a good stash spread out throughout various other hiding places.

Gork@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

And for whatever reason they can get away with offshore tax havens unlike the rest of us plebs.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah, it’s a mystery.

Demigod787@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If the courts can't give people justice, vigilante justice is warranted.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

She wasn't found guilty of hurting her poor customers. She was found guilty of stealing from richer people. Keep that in mind.

riodoro1@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Life for weed, couple of years for defrauding millions. Justice truly is blind.

n3m37h@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Now double it younl dumb fucks