Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is unfortunate. I just hope her career is perma-dead. I could see her trying to stage a Martha Stewart style comeback when she gets out, even though she’s not 10% as smart as Stewart.

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      6 months ago

      Honestly the whole doing-your-time-and-kicking-it-with-Snoop has been pretty rehabilitative for ol Martha in my eyes. I don’t follow her or whatever, and she still does right-wing crap now and again, but. Nowhere near the industrial-scale fraud of Holmes.

      That said 2032 is still a long way off, especially when you’d just recently decided to have a child as a last-ditch attempt to stay out of prison. I guess the Theranos board are all laughing all the way to the bank tho, aren’t they.

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    6 months ago

    Where is she getting the money to afford these appeal lawyers? Wasn’t she sued until she was broke?

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think really rich people ever truly go broke, they just lose all visible cash or assets and have a good stash spread out throughout various other hiding places.

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      6 months ago

      She wasn’t found guilty of hurting her poor customers. She was found guilty of stealing from richer people. Keep that in mind.