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Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos founder makes her case to the jury in fraud trial
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Legal experts expect the trial to hinge on Holmes’ testimony following nearly 30 witnesses for the prosecution – including former investors and patients of Elizabeth Theranos.
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Takes Stand in Her Criminal Trial in Surprise Move by Defense Team
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Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos founder makes her case to the jury in fraud trial
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After testimony from 29 witnesses, federal prosecutors are resting their case against Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO and founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos.
Jurors heard testimony this week from voices that have been scant in Elizabeth Holmes’s criminal-fraud trial so far: patients who took Theranos Inc. tests, as well as Holmes herself.
Elizabeth Holmes defended herself against charges of deceiving investors and patients about her now-defunct blood-testing company. If convicted, Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, accused of bamboozling investors and patients about her startup Theranos and its medical device that she said would reshape
Elizabeth Holmes took the stand in her own defense Friday in the closely watched fraud trial involving her former Silicon Valley biotech startup Theranos.
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder and former CEO of Theranos, is taking the stand in her own criminal trial. Holmes began testimony on Friday afternoon in the San Jose courtroom during the first day of the defense’s case.
For months, Elizabeth Holmes sat silently, masked, in a San Jose federal courtroom as the government mounted its case to jurors that she knowingly lied about the capabilities of her blood-testing company, Theranos, in order to get money.
Prosecutors also say that Theranos faked demonstrations of its technology and falsified validation reports from pharmaceutical companies and the financial health of its business.
Over 11 weeks of testimony, prosecutors in Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes' trial presented a narrative of a CEO who repeatedly fabricated the successes of her technology as she built a blood-testing startup that ultimately failed.
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder and former CEO of Theranos, is set to resume testifying Monday in her criminal trial. Holmes faces 11 federal fraud charges over allegations that she knowingly misled investors, doctors and patients about her company's blood testing capabilities in order to ta…
Ms. Holmes has rebutted the prosecution’s claims that she lied about Theranos’s blood testing technology. Her lawyers are likely to continue building that defense.
