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Elizabeth Holmes trial delayed because she’s pregnant
- floatinglotus 6y agoI wonder if the baby will cry with an ultra low voice like James Earl Jones?
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- great22221 6y ago"Holmes and her former COO Sunny Balwani are each facing a dozen criminal wire fraud charges and 20 years in prison for falsely claiming Theranos technology could run dozens of blood tests with just a drop or two of blood. The Silicon Valley start-up was once valued at $9 billion before shutting down in 2018."
- patentatt 6y agoSeems like a good time to have a baby. With good behavior maybe the kid will get to meet their birth parents at their high school graduation. Presumably they’ll have all of their assets taken as well, so the child won’t even have financial support from their parents.
- skinnymuch 6y agoThe baby is with the heir of some hotels. Not Sunny.
- sjg007 6y agoI predict the govt case will fall apart and she will walk.
- underseacables 6y agoWhat miraculous timing. I will be very surprised if they don’t get her on something. She has a very Martin Shkrelli vibe.
- ttz 6y agoIf Holmes and Sunny walk, then it will be the Nth time we are reminded how broken the criminal justice system is with regards to white collar crime...
- dajoh 6y agoMeanwhile, if you're poor: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/us/diana-sanchez-birth-denver-jail.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/us/diana-sanchez-birth-de...
- t0mas88 6y agoI don't understand how this is possible in a modern country that dares to talk about human rights in other places.
- cmurf 6y agoIt's a decadent and corrupt culture proud of its ignorance. No consequences.
- lilSebastian 6y ago> No consequences Couldn't have put it better.
- hackerbob 6y ago"proud of its ignorance" - This sums up so much.
- runawaybottle 6y agoWith their funding and Covid, they could have pivoted to vaccine or Covid test kit development. Just needed more runway, and the fraud might have worked out.
- globular-toast 6y agoWith contraception being as effective as it is, this means she chose to get pregnant at this time. Women got equal rights but they never took equal responsibility.
- EliRivers 6y agoYeah, pregnancy is so much more damaging to a man than a woman. The number of men who die each year during childbirth is shocking.
- globular-toast 6y agoWhat do you suggest we do about that? Kill men to make up for it?
- soganess 6y agoWhile I'm sure that was a good faith suggestion... How bout we try something different? Like help the world improve its maternal mortality to rate to 2 every 100k people. That seems like the current worldwide floor. If you don't want to help the world, how bout just your own country? I'm not sure where you are headquartered, but here in the US we have a tenfold higher mortality rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_maternal_mortality_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_maternal_...
- globular-toast 6y agoWe've already been doing that for well over a century at this point.
- Dma54rhs 6y agoAllright, but these are numbers are nothing compared to men of all ages dying prematurely and incarnated at way higher rates. There are things called priorities when you want equality.
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- Proven 6y agoHow about we just forget about the trial and move on - make Holmes Biden's Cancer Czar! Imagine inexpensive cancer tests with just a drop or two of blood... All paid for by Obamacare which Biden helped invent. It doesn't have to work, it just needs to stimulate spending. Satisfaction guaranteed!