The controversial entrepreneur elizabeth holmes was sentenced this Friday to 11 years in prison by a California judge, in the United States.
In January of this year, a jury found her guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud investors in her Theranos blood diagnostics company.
His biotech company was valued at $9 billion by claiming to have a device capable of diagnosing dozens of diseases with just a few drops of blood from his fingers.
The 38-year-old entrepreneur said in court, as reported by the BBCwho felt “deep pain” for all those who were deceived by his undertaking.
When Holmes was 30 years old, Forbes named her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire with a net worth of $4.5 billion. However, in 2016 when the Theranos scandal broke, she reduced her fortune to $0.
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