Settings aside what she did with investors and patients for a moment, the fact that she deliberately got pregnant twice to avoid prosecution shows what a master manipulator she is and can put even her children's future at risk to save her ass! Horrible!
Exactly! No decent person *purposefully chooses* to have children when they are acutely aware that they could grow up without a mother throughout their childhoods. Her husband is a millionaire. If they were worried about her body clock and having kids at some point, they could easily have had eggs or embryos frozen. The fact that she chose to have them was all about her. Those children were merely a tool - to try and avoid a lengthy sentence, and to ensure that the millionaire heir husband would be tied to her for the next 18 years, instead of moving on once she'd been in prison a few months. A master manipulator showing her true colours.
It amazes me that people are that calculating. No matter who they destroy. Long as they save themselves. That was evil. Now her children will grow up without a mom.
@@BBBBBBBBBBBX awh...you really don't understand how the world works....how cute to be so naive...I mean...sorta cute...also just hope you're extra young because I'm hoping no adult could be that incredibly dumb
What's sad is she just gave birth to her 2nd child this month. I can understand needing to have kids because of her age. BUT, their lives are gonna be so damn complicated.
Wow 18 months house arrest and some community service?!?! They must've been out of their minds shocked when they realized she was actually going to do ANY time at all...
None of the 100+ letters of support acknowledged that all of this is the direct and natural consequence of her own behaviour. Nor does she. She is crying bitter tears of fury that she will be held accountable, not tears of remorse.
@lornarettig3215 Those letters mean nothing because even though what she wanted to do was supposed to be a good thing. The fact that she knew it didn't work, she continued to make a deal with Walgreens and Safeways. So at that point, you not only duped investors, you started to bring innocent people into this and affecting them. You stupid evil, conviving little witch.
I'm not hugely bothered by the $121m, to be honest. But she should be serving multiple decades for the patients she put at risk, incorrectly diagnosed, and (most likely) directly contributed to their passing. She literally put a price on their heads, in her pursuit of power, and should be treated no differently to other criminals who do the same.
@@Jimmy911ism Not clearly, she didn't. If she'd been honest about how experimental this testing was, there would be no court cases... That's kind of the point.
You could tell by her demeanor that she fully expected to get off with house arrest or at maximum a 12-18 prison sentence. Thankfully we all live in the real world, and justice was served.
Isn't it odd though. Wall Street and American and European bankers stole trillions of dollars from 2004-08 and crashed the world's economy causing millions to lose their homes and jobs and they didn't have to pay a dime back and no one went to jail. Instead governments gave them billions of dollars more for bonuses to people that stole trillions. Isn't it amazing what an organized media can do by framing the narrative?
This is not just about fraud. She played with peoples life. Gave them false hope. Used her children to manipulate (GOD help those kids). I am surprised at people supporting her!! I mean I get her family being there but others? Are her supporters really ok with the fact that if her product would have hit the market it would have killed lot of people?
@@ASK-hn3di I agree with you about that. OxyContin pharma should also get sued and taken accountable for the disaster they pushed into our countries just for greed. I wish they would also had taken accountable for those crimes too.
That’s pharmaceutical royalty though. Who cares that they deliberately tested out their poison in Appalachia first. Poor. Hard working. Jobs that created pain heavy injury. If they became addicted it was easy to say “well look at where they are from…”. Those rat bastards killed people with ease. No care or concern for the systemic and long term catastrophic consequences for that nightmare poison. Elizabeth Holmes is another Silicon Valley Jobs like genius everyone wanted to see. They kissed her ass and built her up and followed her around like the second coming. She didn’t do this by herself. Yes she did wrong but in comparison to other crimes and outcomes it seems a bit uneven.
Because it's a money maker, to attract people's attention to something what happened in real life turned into movies, disasters like chernobyl, serial killers, its a business
I didn’t understand the story until doing some research. Elizabeth holmes definitely is at fault but so are investors and board members that were involved. The amount of money and greed associated with this start up and to claim that no one knew the technology didn’t work? She was valued at 9 BILLION Dollars at one point. Always follow the money, they all knew and threw her under the bus which by god she deserves, but more people deserve to be held accountable.
No no no I will not stand for this blame spreading. Blaming investors for getting fleeced is like blaming someone's grandpa for getting robbed at a gas station. The criminal knew what they were doi g and did it. The victims may have made non-ideal decisions that led them to cross paths with said criminal at the crime spot. I do not believe ALL investors were innocent. I suspect many were in on the scam (like a typical pyramid scam or the crypto scams of late) too and invested to boost confidence and ultimately raise their take/cut before it all collapsed. Just as with pyramid scams, those with inside knowledge or good luck can get out and recoup their monies safely but those who are in at the end lose everything. No way this scumbag conned all these people. I will not believe it. Many were in on it too and thought they could (or actually did) outwit this scumbag, and take some 💰💰💰 on the way out. Don't normalize criminal behavior.
No leniency for her. She deliberately criminally defrauded her investers, much worse sick people... She should be given the maximum sentence of 20yrs+5yrs in prison.
I would say, “eh, white collar crime, mostly millionaires and billionaires affected, 11 years is fine. Maybe even more than enough”… but the fact that her fraudulent actions could’ve lead to misdiagnoses and all the horrible consequences that come with that, she deserves way more.
No. She is worth $0 and will be making 12 cents an hour in prison. Half of what she earns in prison will go to victims ( which to me, is an insult to victims).
Amazing how you stupid Americans don't even know your own system. 11.25 years in Federal prison means she is eligible for parole in 9 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, which is 85% of her sentence. Idiots.
The judge actually had an attractive plea deal forwarded to her " if you will cease and desist with that wounded frog voice ", "will call it even time served" Thanks but no thanks says a fiery Holmes
I think she just disgraced the name of Edison. She has no right to give such a name to her device." The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions."
One of her reasoning not to go to jail is she’s pregnant. There’s a lot of pregnant prisoners have a baby in prison. you’re not special lady you are found guilty.
Imagine her just staring at you, with those massive unblinking sociopathic eyes, as you're conceiving your baby .It's icreepy!! . I mean, did she say, "You must impregnate me, is the only real possibility I have of staying out of jail." In that deep baritone voice. And then, timing it in such a way that she is visibly pregnant as the trial nears its end.
Oh my God, she "took responsibility" for her crimes? Not in the NPD script!!! I'm sure her friends and family agree she's innocent because of her good little intentions.
If she was a man she wouldn’t probably even go to jail. There’s been so many startups in Silicon Valley that failed and lost all their investors money and we don’t hear that all their CEOs go to jail. I don’t defend her just making a point
The fact that you get more years in prison for fraud than for rape just shows how rotten the world is today. Money matters more than human life and integrity apparently.
She thought 20 years of fraud and pushing the blame onto an idiot who joined the company years in and then popping out two kids was going to get her 18 months in her own house and then back to start more fraud? Keep your tears luv.
I wonder if she cheated in school? Ok, I don’t actually wonder. Of course she did. She had been lying and cheating for so long that she believed she could continue to bigger and bigger scores.
