Cory Booker Implores Judge To Give Theranos Fraudster Holmes a ‘Fair’ Sentence
Democratic senator says Elizabeth Holmes has ‘sincere desire to help others’
Benjamin Wilson • November 17, 2022 6:15 pm
Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) last week requested that a federal judge give Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes a “fair and just sentence.”
Holmes, who was convicted in January on four counts of defrauding investors and faces up to 20 years in prison, “has within her a sincere desire to help others” by fighting world hunger and climate change, Booker wrote in a letter to Judge Edward Davila. “I knew Ms. Holmes for about six years before charges were brought.”
Davila is expected to issue a sentence Friday for Holmes, who was found guilty of lying to investors about her company’s blood testing machines, which she falsely claimed could run multiple tests on a single drop of blood. Theranos was once valued at $9 billion.
Booker’s letter comes as critics compare Democratic megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto company FTX, which is under federal investigation for defrauding investors of billions of dollars, to Holmes’s failed company.
Theranos made Holmes a favorite among Democrats and the Obama administration, which named her a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Then-vice president Joe Biden toured her Newark, Calif., facilities in 2015, praising the company for its “confidence.”
“Talk about being inspired,” Biden said at the event. “This is inspiration. It is amazing to me, Elizabeth, what you’ve been able to do.”
Former president Bill Clinton hosted Holmes at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in 2015. The discussion revolved around bringing “equality” into health care.
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