Convicted CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk: prosecutors

SAN JOSE, Calif. –

Elizabeth Holmes is a flight threat and should not be allowed to remain out of jail whereas she appeals her 11-year jail sentence for defrauding traders, federal prosecutors stated in courtroom paperwork.

Holmes had a one-way aircraft ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on 4 counts of fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors stated in a movement filed Thursday in federal courtroom in Northern California.

Holmes, who was CEO of Theranos throughout the firm’s turbulent 15-year historical past, was convicted in a scheme that revolved across the firm’s claims to have developed a medical gadget that might detect a large number of illnesses and circumstances from a number of drops of blood. But the expertise by no means labored, and the claims have been false.

Holmes booked the 2022 flight with out a scheduled return journey and solely canceled it after prosecutors contacted Holmes’ attorneys concerning the “unauthorized flight,” prosecutors stated.

Holmes’ attorneys didn’t instantly reply Friday to e mail and telephone messages from The Associated Press. In a Jan. 23, 2022, e mail responding to prosecutors’ considerations concerning the deliberate journey, they stated Holmes had booked it earlier than the jury’s verdict to attend a marriage in Mexico.

“Given the verdict, she does not plan to take the trip and therefore did not provide notice, seek permission, or request access to her passport (which the government has) for the trip,” wrote Lance Wade, certainly one of Holmes’ attorneys.

On November 17, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Homes to greater than 11 years in jail. Davila ordered Holmes, who’s pregnant, to report back to jail on April 27, giving her sufficient time to provide delivery to her second baby earlier than she is incarcerated. She gave delivery to a son shortly earlier than her trial began final 12 months.

Prosecutors didn’t protest Davila’s resolution to provide Holmes 5 months of freedom or carry up the truth that they thought of her a flight threat.

Holmes is scheduled to return to courtroom on March 17 for a listening to on her request to remain out of jail whereas she appeals her conviction.