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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by cantrevealname on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:54PM (#28068432)
> Prosecutors say Holmes purposefully frustrated the government's effort. An email from Holmes' attorneys included the password, but failed to mention the private key ... before destroying the original database.

If this was done purposefully as the prosecutors claim, how is this not an additional crime of destroying evidence or failing to respond to a subpeona?

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by nwiswell on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:01PM (#28068474)
It may well be a separate crime, but it's up to the prosecutors what charges they want to pursue at trial. Maybe they are confident enough to assert this is what happened but don't think they could meet the burden of proof before a jury.
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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by sleepybrett on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:53PM (#28069679)
It seems like if you are on trail for crime x and you destroy evidence of crime x.. well it must have been the worst version of crime x and you should get the maximum sentence for crime x.
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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by atatatat on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:47AM (#28073677)
That's how losing your toll card works!

If only our entire society worked that way! Utopia!

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by nickff on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:04PM (#28068494)
The most applicable law which I can imagine being relevant here would be the anti-shredding provision of Sarbanes-Oxley, and I'm not sure it applies here. It's also possible that she will be charged with something in the future,

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test ... by beervirus on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:30PM (#28068671)
Could also fall under contempt if she intentionally did this under subpoena.
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