Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show.
The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the US Bureau of Prisons website.
Holmes’s sentence was reduced by more than four months, as her previous release date was set for 29 December 2032.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Holmes’s amended sentence to the Guardian but said he could not comment further due to “privacy, safety and security reasons” for inmates.
This is the second time that Holmes has had her sentence shortened. In July, was reduced by two years.
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
That’s the way it was. Privilege, which just means ‘private law.’ Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
You’re making me want to reread all of the books. GNU, Terry Pratchett.
If you’re ever wondering “Should I reread the entire discworld series?” The answer is Yes
What’s also a bit tragic about all of this is that she chose to have kids right before going to prison. So now her children have to essentially spend their formative years without their mother in their life, other than the prison phone calls and visitation.
Bet someone told her that new moms receive a reduced prison sentence before she decided to take kids.
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
She didn’t exactly complete a substance abuse program to reduce her sentence by two years. Instead, she invented this blood test that uses AI to determine what drugs people could most easily become addicted to.
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She defrauded investors. That’s the only reason she’s seeing prison time at all- money. The ethics of her medical product were not the issue, even if they should’ve been.
I was going more for a ”wanna see me do it again” sort of gallows humor. I agree that the most fucked up part is that she’s only experiencing a facsimile of “justice” because she “stole” money from people richer than her.
I hate that we live in a world where the greatest crime imaginable is punching upwards.
Bingo.
Defraud the public: slap on the wrist
Defraud the wealthy: straight to jail
Is it me or does she look like she’s transitioning? Maybe when she was intentionally deepening her voice it wasn’t simply a ruse.
