Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
by ericmay on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:38PM
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While I don’t share in the misanthropic sentiment of the OP, it’s difficult for me to not sit here and say well if you didn’t want to go to prison you shouldn’t have defrauded people and violated the law…
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Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
by microtherion on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:57PM
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And her misdeeds did not just cost some wealthy investors some money; they seem to have played a significant role in the suicide of Theranos chief scientist Ian Gibbons: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holme...
Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:35AM
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I don't think anyone here is saying she shouldn't be going to prison or that she should be going there for less than a decade. But spending 65 years in jail for _anything_ short of substantially heinous crimes should cause anyone to question the motivation behind the sentencing. I understand that the wire fraud is what's causing the time to stack up here, but a 65 year sentence would be ridiculous. I'm much more onboard with a 10-25 year sentence though, even if there's perjury involved.