Friday OT #2 - So, So, So Scandalous
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!f I remember right she's pretty hot (well at least she was before her downfall) I'd do jail porn with her.
Naw more like the old 70's movies where they just rented out the jails or whatever.
University of Iowa racial discrimination lawsuit. Kirk's deposition is scheduled for later this month.
The Jason Carter story has been a wild one, not just the criminal trial, but the civil one as well. I'm pretty sure he did it, but there are a lot of odd things about the story.
Another one really close to home is the missing person case of Jesse Leopold. His truck was found at Ledges State Park in 2016, and he was never seen again. His father has been trying to keep the case alive and find new leads, but it has pretty much gone cold.
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO and founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos, was found guilty on four charges of defrauding investors, capping off the stunning downfall of a former tech icon.
Thernos verdict info.
Also the counts where the jury couldn't decide will likely be declared a mistrial, and she may face those charges again.
I'm watching the Hulu series "The Dropout" and it's pretty interesting watching things play out. I'm still in the first couple of episodes, but it seems that the voice deepening is how she reassures herself when things are going poorly.
Regarding the voice, I’ve read articles that says she does it so that people take her more seriously. But still interested to know why.
A couple episodes are a struggle. Also, think about Sunny, he put the moves on a HS senior.
I was surprised she got that much time, but she cost people a bunch of money. Didn't she get a $800 million dollar fine also? How in the world would you pay that?
Some said here are on my list too. 9/11, Columbine, Oklahoma City bombing. I listened to a multi-part series on the Kennedy assassination.
Then several of the most famous killers like Dahmer, Gacy, Gein to name a few and maybe the one of the most sickest killers ever Albert Fish.
Then several of the most famous killers like Dahmer, Gacy, Gein to name a few and maybe the one of the most sickest killers ever Albert Fish.
The Elizabeth Holmes Reputation Recovery Tour is underway.
www.nytimes.com
Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth (Published 2023)
The black turtlenecks are gone. So is the voice. As the convicted Theranos founder awaits prison, she has adopted a new persona: devoted mother.
Her last ditch effort to avoid reporting to prison pending her appeal has failed, she be locked up May 30, 11 years and her and Balwani have to repay $452 million to their victims.The Elizabeth Holmes Reputation Recovery Tour is underway.
Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth (Published 2023)
The black turtlenecks are gone. So is the voice. As the convicted Theranos founder awaits prison, she has adopted a new persona: devoted mother.
Personally, I think she deserves another 10 years for naming her daughter Invicta.
The Elizabeth Holmes Reputation Recovery Tour is underway.
Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth (Published 2023)
The black turtlenecks are gone. So is the voice. As the convicted Theranos founder awaits prison, she has adopted a new persona: devoted mother.
I read Bad Blood. She's guilty of two crimes (in the moral sense not in the legal sense) --
Theranos sounded like an awful place to work. But they paid well (as tech startups do in the Bay Area, or at least did until recently when the VC spigot went dry). She's hardly the only CEO to establish an atrocious workplace culture. We've all experienced that... makes her an ******* of a boss, not a criminal.
The other crime was essentially stealing from investors. Theranos was privately held, and Holmes only went after big fish. Like, megalodon-level big fish. The list of people she bilked is hilarious --
In May 2018, John Carreyrou reported that American business and government leaders lost more than $600 million by privately investing in Theranos. Major investments had been made by the Walton family ($150 million), Rupert Murdoch ($121 million), Betsy DeVos ($100 million) and the Cox family (of Cox Media Group) ($100 million). The final liquidation of the company in September 2018 rendered these investments worthless.
That does not even count the board members she courted somehow --
Holmes was introduced to former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that month. Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the "all-star board", which included William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense), Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State), Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator), Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator, senate majority leader and heart-transplant surgeon), Gary Roughead (Admiral, USN, retired), Jim Mattis (General, USMC), Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO) and Riley P. Bechtel (chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group)
So, I can't help but like her on some level.
There's a populist/Robin Hood element of her stealing from these people and making them look like fools. There's also a nihilistic element to it -- like in The Dark Knight when the Joker sets the money on fire.
She set a lot of money on fire.
She was bilking people by outright lying about the capabilities of her technology. If it had worked it would've been arguably the greatest innovation in the past century, so of course high-powered 1%ers wanted in. That doesn't change the fact that she lied about what her technology could do. Nothing noble about that IMO.
