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Re:Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while... by George83728 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:41AM (#35974441)
> Enron wasn’t a regular business caught committing crimes. The entire thing was fraud. There was no business left to operate.

This isn't true. Read The Smartest Guys in the Room. Enron started out as a real company and slowly became increasingly fraudulent with time.

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Re:Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while... by graeme on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:30PM (#35982875)
Well yes. But what I meant was that at the time it collapsed, it was all fraud. There was no real business profitable business to continue. Fraud was what it did by the end.
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