"Elizabeth Holmes Booked A One-Way Flight To Mexico After Fraud Conviction, Prosecutors Say" - https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/20/eliza...

This story makes me happy that justice works some times.

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.

I'm not confusing anything.

Yet she still wasn't immediately incarcerated.

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".

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".

She’s also likely headed to a min security retreat that has more in common with a sleepaway camp than OITNB

Ah, yes the foolproof "they wouldn't be that stupid argument".

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.