This delay makes a mockery of the justice system. Holmes knew exactly what she was doing from the beginning of the project. She knew that the machines did not work, and she had set up a secret room with conventional machines doing the actual testing on standard samples.

Her massive fraud would have injured and killed thousands of people if Tyler Shultz, the grandson of George Shultz (who was major investor and board member of Theranos) had not been willing, in the face of threats from Holmes's lawyers, to reach out to Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. You can read the whole story in Carreyrou's book, "Bad Blood". Walgreens was on the verge of installing thousands of Potemkin testing machines when Carreyrou's articles appeared in the WSJ and investigations stopped the fraud.

Elizabeth Holmes and her boyfriend Sunny Balwani are very dangerous people. They have a psychopathology described in several books by the world expert, Robert Hare. They will not be reformed by prison, but prison will provide a brief interval where they cannot destroy people's lives.

Interesting article on Holmes from Yahoo. Web Link

The HBO documentary on Holmes, “The Inventor: Out for Blood” is well done and interesting. She was no victim, she’s an entitled sociopath narcissist who should have gotten 40 years in prison for affecting innocent people’s health. My physician husband questioned her system long ago, said it didn’t make sense. And then for leniency she purposely gave birth to two children and killed her beloved dog, Balto. Who did she pay off for this extension of prison time and will the Texas prison she eventually goes to be a dorm-like prison like Lori Laughlin went to in Dublin, CA where they sunbathe and do arts & crafts? The 11 years sentence will probably be two years at most. White wealth entitlement!