Althouse: "At the Bryan prison camp, inmates are generally required to wake up at 6 a.m.... Each is required to keep her space clean, and inmates typically wear clothing colored pastel green, gray or white."

May 30, 2023

"At the Bryan prison camp, inmates are generally required to wake up at 6 a.m.... Each is required to keep her space clean, and inmates typically wear clothing colored pastel green, gray or white."

It says in "Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced Theranos founder, reports to prison/The onetime tech superstar began serving an 11-year sentence for carrying out a massive blood-testing fraud" (WaPo).

25 comments:

BIII Zhang said...: 11 years? Yeah, right. She'll be blowing the warden and out before she even figures out how the commissary works.; 5/30/23, 7:22 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: I will put this here.; 5/30/23, 7:29 PM
Dave Begley said...: The real punishment is that she’s removed from her two small children.; 5/30/23, 7:32 PM
RideSpaceMountain said...: Imagine being her child - the one she had so she could 'plead her belly' - and growing up to realize that your entire purpose for being was so your fraudster mommy could get sympathy from a jury.

Imagine knowing that. And mark my words that kid will know.; 5/30/23, 7:40 PM
Dave Begley said...: Okay, Althouse community. Her’s my story about how I nearly went out with a federal felon.

Meet this woman on Match.com. She’s in Kansas. Says she is moving to Omaha because her Covid job was ending. She tells me she has job interviews in Omaha with different health care facilities. She also tells me that she hadn’t had sex in four years so I’m definitely interested!

I ask her how she got so many job interviews. She says her LinkedIn profile. I want to see this LinkedIn profile. I check it out and then Google her last name.

Turns out she has convicted in federal court in Springfield, MO for embezzling nearly $1m. She’d been arrested 9 times before and spent time in the Indiana state pen. The AUSA wrote that she had chosen, “a life of crime.” Imagine getting booked 9 times.

I called her up and told her my findings and that I couldn’t go out with her. Sometimes, I’m too Catholic.; 5/30/23, 7:45 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Hoping this will lead to a silly and ill-conceived, but none the less entertaining escape attempt on Ms. Holme's part.; 5/30/23, 7:51 PM
Chuck said...: I've seen that headline now in several places. Variations on "blood testing fraud." Which is a bit odd to me. I never followed her case all that closely, But I certainly know that the subject of her massive financial fraud was an audacious scheme to develop all sorts of new diagnostics from blood testing.

But it wasn't "fraudulent blood testing." Put another way, it might be easy from someone to think, "Oh no; 'fraudulent blood testing.' Were sick patients deceived about the results of their blood tests?" And no, patients were not given bad results from conventional blood tests. Investors were defrauded by believing false claims about the future business possibilities of experimental blood testing ideas.; 5/30/23, 8:33 PM
Narayanan said...: in scientific terms what really matters to the patient?
is it >> test results [what ever the process]
or the advertised process [what ever the results]

in finance/marketing terms what really matters to the investor?

so what and where was the fraud?; 5/30/23, 9:35 PM
madAsHell said...: Elizabeth Holmes is now the victim.

Can Sam Bankman Fried be far behind??; 5/30/23, 9:35 PM
Dave (in MA) said...: Oh, no!
They can't wear black turtlenecks?; 5/30/23, 10:24 PM
re Pete said...: "It’s many a guard

That stands around smilin’"; 5/30/23, 11:44 PM
gadfly said...: BIII Zhang said...
11 years? Yeah, right. She'll be blowing the warden and out before she even figures out how the commissary works.

If she wants out, BI, the fencing will not keep her inside the facility. Merriam-Webster defines "prison camp" as a camp for the confinement of reasonably trustworthy prisoners usually employed on government projects. Blood work it is!; 5/31/23, 2:47 AM
Chris N said...: ‘Liz’ will come out next year.; 5/31/23, 3:49 AM
Big Mike said...: Can Sam Bankman Fried be far behind??

The Democrats who comment here want to know. Sam who??? They never heard of him.; 5/31/23, 5:22 AM
Enigma said...: Elizabeth Holmes would have popped out a new baby every year if it'd kept her out of prison. Just think about it: a fleet of half-inane, half-insane Octomom offspring to fill the universities and workforce 20 years hence.; 5/31/23, 6:31 AM
Jamie said...: 6am? The horror!; 5/31/23, 7:49 AM
Kai Akker said...: Just before the paywall ascended over the copy, after about the 3rd paragraph of the story, I saw this boldface promotional come-on from the Wapoo:

BIG TECH IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. WE ARE.

Ummmmm. OK, comrades.; 5/31/23, 8:29 AM
tommyesq said...: Outstanding investigative journalism by WaPo - they are really upping their game since about 2014.; 5/31/23, 8:34 AM
ColoComment said...: Chuck (at 5/30/23, 8:33 PM):
You are quibbling over minor phrasing. Read "Bad Blood," by John Carryrou. He is the author who listened to a company whistleblower, and whose investigation broke open the fraud(s) at Theranos.
And, yes, Theranos provided false results to patients (because its technology didn't and never worked.)
It was not only financial fraud of the highest order, it was medical fraud.
I suggest that you read the book, and when finished, please come back and let us know your informed thoughts....; 5/31/23, 8:36 AM
Aggie said...: Cool Hand Liz.

If anyone is conjuring up images of manacles, slavering dogs, and chain gang hardship, put them away. The 'Federal Prison Camp' is in a residential area just outside of downtown Bryan. Her only hardship is an 11-year sentence of intense boredom and bland, nourishing institutional food. As a full-time big-league con, it'll drive her crazy.; 5/31/23, 8:47 AM
Josephbleau said...: “Her only hardship is an 11-year sentence of intense boredom and bland, nourishing institutional food. As a full-time big-league con, it'll drive her crazy.”

Perhaps she can learn how to use burglary tools and apply for small business loans online.; 5/31/23, 9:01 AM
mikee said...: The location of her prison, Bryan, Texas, is a small town formerly associated with a military base and now known as the small town just up Highway 6 from College Station and Texas A&M University. Here's hoping she can get a furlough to give a few lectures on Entrepreneurship to the students there. The talk would be memorable for one and all, I am sure.

And if nobody else thought of this before me, I want naming rights to the event. I'd call it "Aggies, Don't Believe A Single Word You Hear From Elizabeth Holmes."; 5/31/23, 9:03 AM
Aggie said...: I mean, just think of it - a shady, quiet campus in a lower-middle class neighborhood that is so bland it's called 'Federal Prison Camp' - so exceedingly nondescript and dull, they couldn't even think of somebody to name it after.; 5/31/23, 9:39 AM
Rusty said...: ColoComment said...
That was a very nice way of telling Chuck to piss off. A wasted effort, but nice anyway.; 5/31/23, 9:44 AM
RigelDog said...: Holmes is a big ol' weirdo narcissist but I'm sorry, eleven years is too much time for a financial crime. Three years sounds more appropriate to me.; 5/31/23, 3:33 PM