VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: Elizabeth Holmes
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Charged With 'massive Fraud'
MAR
14
Status: Available Now!
Type: News
Date: Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:00 AM
Media: USA Today

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About the person Elizabeth Holmes:
Art: Corporation
Genres: CEO, Co-Founder, Entrepreneur, Executive, Founder, Management, President, Health Care, Health-Technology, Medical Service
Notable Organizations: USA Today
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was charged with "massive fraud" by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, a downbeat coda to a once high-flying Silicon Valley start-up that promised to revolutionize the blood analysis process. The SEC complaint charged that Theranos raised more than $700 million from late 2013 to 2015 while "deceiving investors by making it appear as if Theranos had successfully developed a commercially-ready portable blood analyzer" that could perform a full range of laboratory tests from a small sample of blood. “But in reality, we allege that after years of development, Theranos was able to process just a small number of blood tests upon its proprietary analyzer, and instead conducted the vast majority of its patients’ tests on modified commercial analyzers that were manufactured by others,” Steven Peikin, the SEC’s co-director of enforcement, told reporters. Holmes, 34, who once graced the cover of countless magazines and was worth billions on paper, has already settled the charges against her. She will pay a $500,000 penalty, be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 10 years, and return 18.9 million shares she amassed during the alleged fraud.
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