Posted on 09/11/2020 4:43:01 AM PDT by C19fan
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes may argue that she was suffering from a 'mental disease' when she allegedly defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars with her fake blood testing technology.
The tentative plan for a so-called insanity defense was revealed on Wednesday when the US District Court in San Diego ruled that experts selected by the prosecution could examine Holmes.
Judge Edward Davila authorized the examinations after Holmes' lawyers said they intended to introduce expert evidence from a clinical psychologist 'relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant bearing on the issue of guilt'.
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I have the book here if anyone wants it free I’ll mail it out.Just freepmail me.
I’m more interested in James Mattis’ role in this mega fraud. He vouched for Holmes again and again in speeches and conference and was paid handsomely for it.
Gotta like her. She looks like katie holmes my favorite lover.
It’s a great book. Highly recommend. As for the insanity/diminished capacity angle. Once the defendant finds out that Gov Drs, psychologists and psychiatrists, get to interview you they often back away. The gig is somewhat up.
Grist for a new “Law & Order’episode by Dick Wolf.
“Elizabeth Holmes was born in Washington, D.C.[11]
“Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was a vice president at Enron, an energy company, after which he held executive positions in government agencies such as USAID, the EPA, and USTDA.[16][17]
“Her mother, Noel Anne (Daoust), worked as a Congressional committee staffer.”
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She’s ranch-raised deep-state spawn.
I would imagine that when you rip people off off millions of dollars it would make one edgy.
Oh noes, not another bug eyes!
She has a rich crazy boyfriend now.She is still living the high-life.
I wonder if she’s related to H. H. Holmes.
Many people who accomplish big things are bipolar. Visions of grandeur, and feelings that you can accomplish big dreams help drive some people to achievement them. So she’ll claim that she was defrauded by her own mind. She’s a victim too! Normally guilt without responsibility does not play well in court. But ... California.
I don’t trust government prosecutors, but doubt she would be going for a mental defense — or have even been charged — if there were not hard evidence of criminal intent. Guess we’ll see if she doesn’t plea.
Lol
You are just telling it the way it is
“Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes plans an insanity defense because she was suffering from a ‘mental disease’ when she ‘defrauded investors out of millions with her fake blood testing technology’”
oh, it’s clear she definitely suffers from a mental disease: it’s called sociopathy ... but sociopathy doesn’t excuse her crimes, but instead simply explains them ...
“but shouldn’t the two scientist board members Bonanni and Foege be responsible for that?”
99% of the time, board members are pro-forma rubber-stamps whose main purpose is to provide a false aura of respectability, but without actually doing any actual oversight ...
Is she truly?
Or is she just a modern snake-oil salesman who was very good at it?
Add money grubbing narcissist to your description.
I know it is a bit motivated reasoning from me because I don’t want Mattis to be guilty, but here:
Maybe the respectability of Bonanni and Foege also worked on Mattis? He knew that he couldn’t understand the science anyway, but since there were two scientists on the board who could, then Mattis figured the science behind the machine is solid.
From there he went with his knowledge of the military - if the machine works then the military could sure use it.
Mattis, like most of the board, was there simply for the big money he was being paid to lend the use of his name for the credibility of the fraudulent company. Others included former secretary of state George Shultz (who disowned his own grandson who was one of the main whistleblower employees that brought down theranos), Henry Kissinger, and former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Bill Frist, amongst others. All of these were old codgers who still had Washington name recognition and were simply selling their former fame for a price ...
Bill Frist, a medical doctor (surgeon), should have known better.
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