I don't buy this at all. People at this level of power are held accountable if they make easily identified crimes where their individual culpability can be proven. Heck, even Holmes own criminal judgement shows that. I know the Internet's take on the situation was "She was only convicted for stealing from rich people, but not for defrauding normal patients, because the justice system only cares about rich people." That's BS. It's just simply that there was much more of a "smoking gun" that showed her directly lying to investors to get their money, while it's at least plausible she thought she could generate accurate results for patients since in many cases they were taking full blood draws anyway.

Besides, it's impossible that Holmes crimes wouldn't ever be discovered. I commented elsewhere, but the technology Theranos was selling was simply impossible - capillary blood at very small volumes is simply not homogeneous enough to give accurate results for quantitative tests. Holmes jumped off a cliff without a parachute and thought that if she gave enough glowing interviews to credulous news outlets that she could somehow keep from hitting the ground.