[socrates1998]

I am glad she was found guilty, but there are a few concerns. First, she was only convicted of lying to her investors, not the actual patients, which is laughable.

Second, she is supposed to get up to 20 years for EACH of the counts (they will be served concurrently so she won't get 80 years). And I am curious as to how much time she will actually serve.

Third, what kind of sociopath has a baby in the middle of a trial where she could go to jail and not see the kid for years???

Fourth, what kind of person meets her, googles her, thinks "it's all bullshit", then proceeds to get in a relationship with her AND have a kid with her. Man this woman is a con artist.

She should get 20 years for the lies she spread and damage potentially did. Messing with people's blood tests for CANCER. So wrong.

[CRConrad]

> Fourth, what kind of person meets her, googles her, thinks "it's all bullshit", then proceeds to get in a relationship with her AND have a kid with her.

Someone who gets rather handsomely paid for it?

[trutannus]

> what kind of sociopath has a baby in the middle of a trial where she could go to jail and not see the kid for years

The same sort who would lie to cancer patients about their blood test results, and very probably lead a few to their deaths along the way? Sounds exactly like the Holmes we've all come to know.

[ctchocula]

Matt Levine has a good article [1] about Theranos that goes into the irony of why she got caught on defrauding investors and not the pafients. His hypothesis is that in court of law, it's easier to make the case for damages when it's easily quantifiable (e.g. $10B in damages) rather than 1000 possibly wrong blood tests.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-04/slayin...