Elizabeth Holmes' prison term was just shortened by 2 years
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The disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 ¼ years in prison, but she is now set to serve roughly 9 ½ years.

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison, but will only serve roughly nine-and-a-half.

    • bighi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s the US and he’s not as rich as her.

      If she had more money she would’ve stayed out of jail.

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Could be that he was less of a sympathetic figure due to his ostentatious and flashy spending habits, and… she’s a woman.

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      He was repeat exec who arguably should have known better. He also was closer to the actual lab operations and the functional execution of fraudulent activities.

      I’m not sure I buy it.