Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been charged with criminal fraud

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just finished this book. read it in 2 days, it was real good.

this woman is an all out sociopath -- i watched an interview of her after i read it just gives me nightmares. how she doesn't blink and lowers her voice on purpose. to wearing turtlenecks to emulate steve jobs. to how she policed her company. she's fukking creepy as shyt.

i am happy with her downfall. she's a true image of white privilege. and she put thousands of peoples lives at risk. fukk her.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alisonwillmore/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-inventor-scammer

"Contrary to what some of her former employees have insisted, Elizabeth Holmes does, in fact, blink. She just doesn't seem to do it very often. You can watch for it in the ads that documentarian Errol Morris directed for her company, Theranos, back when it was still a hot startup and not an even hotter exemplar of Silicon Valley delusion. She blinks reluctantly, with such vaguely reptilian slowness that it really does seem like she'd opt out of the basic bodily function if she could, in order to better maintain unbroken eye contact with whoever she's speaking to. And in lieu of a person, she'll stare down the camera with equal intensity.

"People don't even know that they have a basic human right to be able to get access to information about themselves and their own bodies that can change their lives," she intones in one spot, in that deliberate baritone, eyes wide and lit with a ring light that makes her fervor more uncanny. Most CEOs try to position themselves as funny, down-to-earth, on-the-level types when they appear in their own marketing material — no soulless captains of capitalism here! But Holmes leans in the opposite direction, more cult than cult of personality. She looks like a zealot, or maybe a dystopian dictator in a sci-fi movie, beaming mandatory messages of assurance into the homes of her citizens."


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I'm also fully prepared for her to get a slap on the wrist and nothing of consequence happen to her after this trial wraps up.

completely agree, i will be shocked if she gets any jail time.

The system is designed to protect the people with money.

This recycler got 15 months jail time for redistributing free Windows updates

He went to jail for THAT, but corporations regularly run multimillion dollar scams and don't do a single day in jail.
 

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I watched that HBO documentary about Holmes called "The Inventor." Made me hate her even more and upped my hatred for David Boies (and Heather King) too. That guy is a complete piece of shyt. It's incredible how some people have no conscience whatsoever and are remorseless for the pain, suffering and trauma they cause.
 
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That showed up as a suggestion when I opened Chrome and I wanted to throw my phone. Whoever wrote that garbage needs to be shot.
Brehs, from the very top of the article:

"This requires mention ahead of the disclosure that I live in the same apartment building as Holmes’s parents, and consider them friends. I've also briefly spoken with Elizabeth Holmes a few times over the years"

And look at his bio on the bottom:

"John Tamny is a speechwriter and writer of opinion pieces for clients, he's editor of RealClearMarkets, Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks, and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research and Trading"


His job is writing opinion pieces for hire. Even if the family didn't actually pay him to do it, he obviously did it as a favor and is practiced at the exact skill of writing out bullshyt opinions for ulterior motives.
 
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