{"id":1111,"date":"2020-09-13T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:48:42","slug":"theranos-founder-and-fraudster-elizabeth-holmes-may-plead-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Theranos Founder (and fraudster) Elizabeth Holmes may plead mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde923bcb200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elizabeth holmes\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde923bcb200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde923bcb200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Elizabeth holmes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted about her as exposed in the great book <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2018\/10\/latest-read-bad-blood-about-the-great-theranoselizabeth-holmes-fraud.html\">Latest Read: &quot;Bad Blood&quot; about the great Theranos\/Elizabeth Holmes fraud<\/a>, a posting back in October, 2018. The post is well worth reading and following the links &#8211; if I do say so myself. Holmes did everything she could to mimic Steve Jobs, down to his clothing and voice!&#0160; Here&#39;s the pending defense:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/news\/2020\/09\/12\/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-may-claim-mental-disease-during-criminal-trial\/24618609\/\">Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes may claim she was suffering from \u201cmental disease\u201d during her upcoming criminal trial over whether she scammed investors out of millions with her fake blood-testing technology. Holmes, whose failed biotech company was once valued at $9 billion, was indicted on federal wire fraud charges in June 2018,alongside with Theranos&#39; former COO, Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She raised\/conned over $900 million &#8211; pretty good con for somenone with a mental illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Holmes\u2019 legal team said they intend to use expert testimony from Mindy Mechanic, a clinical psychologist at California State University at Fullerton, to bolster their claims, according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to her faculty profile on the school\u2019s website,&#0160;Mechanic specializes in \u201ctrauma and victimization with an emphasis on violence against women and other forms of interpersonal violence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The mostly-redacted court documents do not make clear what mental illness or condition Holmes&#39; attorney will attempt to cite in one of the most closely watched cases in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Another big con.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about her as exposed in the great book Latest Read: &quot;Bad Blood&quot; about the great Theranos\/Elizabeth Holmes fraud, a posting back in October, 2018. The post is well worth reading and following the links &#8211; if I do say so myself. Holmes did everything she could to mimic Steve Jobs, down to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}