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Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty by bee_rider on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:12AM (#29791947)
Was she? I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?

Like if you order some bullets from a gun shop, and the guy delivers them by doing a drive-by on your house, surely the only legal problem for the deliveryman can't be "these bullets were a ripoff, the gunpowder is already expended!"

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:41AM (#29792079)
> I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?

The bad diagnostic test in exchange for money is the essence of the fraud she was acquitted of, not some separate harm.

I mean, it's not impossible she could face state law claims about it separate from the federal ones, but any federal criminal claims from the same set of actions would be foreclosed now by double jeopardy (besides retrial on the charges that the jury hung on.)

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