[s_dev]

It could happen anywhere -- the US has it's share of cowboys too. WeWork, Thanos etc. Ireland too has had a few cowboys.

Merkel might have to step in to clean this up -- it's embarrasing because of the number of German institutions that protected this fraud. The German Financial Regulator went after professionally accredited investigative journalists and seemed to indulge in other face palms.

[arnaudsm]

Thanos, the famous Elizabeth Holmes' company that tried to kill the Avengers

[s_dev]

Theranos. Certainly a hell of a typo.

[rudiv]

With one snap of one's fingers, half the company's 'value' dies in an instant.

[pkaye]

Theranos didn't try to kill the Avengers though.