Theranos laminitis and erstwhile CEO Elizabeth Holmes pauses portion going done a information checkpoint arsenic she arrives for proceedings astatine the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building connected December 07, 2021 successful San Jose, California.
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A national justice denied Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' question for a caller proceedings Monday, according to a tribunal filing.
The 38-year-old, a one-time billionaire and darling of Silicon Valley who promised a revolutionary blood-testing technology, was found blameworthy successful January of 4 charges successful her transgression fraud trial.
Jurors convicted Holmes of 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and 3 counts of ligament fraud against circumstantial investors. Deliberations lasted much than 50 hours implicit 7 days.
Holmes sought a caller proceedings aft a prima witness, erstwhile Theranos laboratory manager Adam Rosendorff, showed up astatine Holmes' residence successful August to speech to her. She besides presented 2 different sets of recently discovered evidence, according to the filing.
Holmes' spouse Billy Evans claims that Rosendorff made remorseful comments extracurricular of their location connected Aug. 8, according to tribunal filings. According to Evans, Rosendorff said that "he tried to reply the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to marque everyone look bad."
Rosendorff doubled down connected his grounds successful October, and helium said the crushed for his sojourn was to question forgiveness and healing for himself.
"In the months pursuing Elizabeth Holmes' condemnation I started to consciousness progressively distressed and uncomfortable astatine the imaginable her young kid would walk the formative years of their beingness without their mother," Rosendorff told an lawyer for Holmes. "And I recognize Ms. Holmes whitethorn beryllium large again." Holmes gave commencement to her archetypal kid successful July.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila denied Holmes' question for a caller proceedings based connected the caller grounds she brought forward. Her sentencing volition proceed connected Nov. 18.
Each ligament fraud number carries a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful situation and the conspiracy number carries a maximum of 5 years. Legal experts accidental it's highly improbable she volition get thing adjacent to that.
--CNBC's Yasmin Khorram contributed to this report.