Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder set to start a jail sentence for fraud later this 12 months, made plans to “flee the nation” after her conviction final 12 months, prosecutors revealed Thursday.
The allegation is available in a court docket submitting opposing Holmes’ request to not report back to jail whereas she appeals her case. In it, prosecutors say Holmes booked a one-way ticket to Mexico departing final January. Nevertheless, she didn't cancel the journey, which was set to depart a number of weeks after she was discovered responsible on 4 counts of fraud, till after prosecutors confronted her protection workforce, the submitting states.
It’s “troublesome to know with certainty what [Holmes] would have achieved had the federal government not intervened,” prosecutors mentioned, however given her lack of regret over her crimes working a fraudulent blood-testing firm and her present life-style dwelling on an costly property, it’s obvious she “has each the means and the motive to flee.”
In keeping with an e-mail included in Thursday’s submitting, Holmes’ lawyer defined to prosecutors that the Mexico journey was booked earlier than the decision, that she didn't plan to take the journey, and she or he hadn’t canceled it due to “every thing that has been happening” with the trial. Nevertheless, there was no rationalization for why no return flight had been booked.
Holmes, set to start her Eleven-plus-year jail sentence in April, is at the moment prohibited from leaving Northern California ― although she has petitioned the court docket to ease her journey restrictions. Her April give up date, which the court docket agreed to as a result of she’s at the moment pregnant, is already “beneficiant,” prosecutors mentioned.
“There are usually not two methods of justice — one for the rich and one for the poor — there's one prison justice system on this nation,” prosecutors wrote.
“And below that system, the time has come for Elizabeth Holmes to reply for her crimes dedicated almost a decade in the past.”
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