Guilty of four out of 11 counts. It is the decision of the jury made up of 8 men and 4 women against Elizabeth Holmes, former star of Silicon Valley when he was head of the biotech start-up Theranos. The verdict came after more than 50 hours of council chamber.
The 37-year-old manager who thought she was emulating Steve Jobs was at the head of the start-up Theranos, founded in 2003, which promised to revolutionize the industry of medical analysis laboratories: Holmes had managed to persuade dozens of investors to bet on his creation. But a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal drew the attention of the authorities and paved the way for the opening of an investigation that led to allegations of fraud. In short, Holmes would have fraudulently collected 945 million dollars. He faces 20 years in prison.
(Unioneonline / ss)
