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Wasn't there a story that she was waiting out of jail and booked a flight without return and was immediately arrested?

belter 4y ago
"Elizabeth Holmes Booked A One-Way Flight To Mexico After Fraud Conviction, Prosecutors Say" - https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/20/elizabeth-holmes-booked-a-one-way-flight-to-mexico-after-fraud-conviction-prosecutors-say/?sh=3e56cc5260cc https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/20/eliza...
- sdfghswe 4y ago
  This story makes me happy that justice works some times.
  - toomuchtodo 4y ago
    People in this thread are confusing satisfaction in the justice system for schadenfreude. It’s just nice to see people who have done wrong held accountable.
    - sdfghswe 4y ago
      I'm not confusing anything.
  - olliej 4y ago
    Yet she still wasn't immediately incarcerated.
- bpodgursky 4y ago
  Look, this story is stupid. It was a 3-leg trip she speculatively booked while appealing her sentence. If she was genuinely trying to flee the country, she would not have booked a 1-way flight months ahead of time. She can afford a round trip ticket, bought at the airport on the day of departure. Or fled across the Mexico border. Or smuggled herself out on a boat. There are SO MANY ways to flee the country that are not shouting "HEY FYI TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT — I'M LEAVING FOR A BIT".
  - arlcode 4y ago
    Or she just panicked when it sank in that yes she really would end up in prison. Facing 11 years of it after being a part of the 1% can lead to some pretty human, pretty stupid decisions. She isn't some hardened street criminal with a "Go bag".
    - vxNsr 4y ago
      She’s also likely headed to a min security retreat that has more in common with a sleepaway camp than OITNB
  - sdfghswe 4y ago
    Ah, yes the foolproof "they wouldn't be that stupid" argument.
karaterobot 4y ago
Here's the quote from the article, which is very short: > Prosecutors had attempted to argue that Holmes did pose a flight risk, revealing that her partner had bought her a one-way flight to Mexico shortly before the verdict was returned. While Davila called the travel plans a “bold move” and Holmes’s failure to cancel the ticket post-conviction a “perilously careless oversight”, he accepted her assertion that she was not trying to flee the country.

"Elizabeth Holmes Booked A One-Way Flight To Mexico After Fraud Conviction, Prosecutors Say" - https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/20/elizabeth-holmes-booked-a-one-way-flight-to-mexico-after-fraud-conviction-prosecutors-say/?sh=3e56cc5260cc https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/20/eliza...

sdfghswe 4y ago
This story makes me happy that justice works some times.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  People in this thread are confusing satisfaction in the justice system for schadenfreude. It’s just nice to see people who have done wrong held accountable.
  - sdfghswe 4y ago
    I'm not confusing anything.
- olliej 4y ago
  Yet she still wasn't immediately incarcerated.
bpodgursky 4y ago
Look, this story is stupid. It was a 3-leg trip she speculatively booked while appealing her sentence. If she was genuinely trying to flee the country, she would not have booked a 1-way flight months ahead of time. She can afford a round trip ticket, bought at the airport on the day of departure. Or fled across the Mexico border. Or smuggled herself out on a boat. There are SO MANY ways to flee the country that are not shouting "HEY FYI TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT — I'M LEAVING FOR A BIT".
- arlcode 4y ago
  Or she just panicked when it sank in that yes she really would end up in prison. Facing 11 years of it after being a part of the 1% can lead to some pretty human, pretty stupid decisions. She isn't some hardened street criminal with a "Go bag".
  - vxNsr 4y ago
    She’s also likely headed to a min security retreat that has more in common with a sleepaway camp than OITNB
- sdfghswe 4y ago
  Ah, yes the foolproof "they wouldn't be that stupid" argument.

karaterobot 4y ago

Here's the quote from the article, which is very short: > Prosecutors had attempted to argue that Holmes did pose a flight risk, revealing that her partner had bought her a one-way flight to Mexico shortly before the verdict was returned. While Davila called the travel plans a “bold move” and Holmes’s failure to cancel the ticket post-conviction a “perilously careless oversight”, he accepted her assertion that she was not trying to flee the country.