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So… just defrauding the rich investors, nothing on the people who’s blood she claimed to be testing.

• adventured 5y ago
  She didn't significantly injure those people - she misled consumers about the technology but not the results. They did the actual testing on other legitimate machines. The wire fraud charges were by far the much better target.
  • olliej 5y ago
    They used legitimate machines, but were among other things watering down the samples and using lower volumes of blood than necessary for correct and accurate operation.
• rossdavidh 5y ago
  The fraud was easier to pin on Holmes as a person, rather than Theranos as a company.