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"The drop out": Elizabeth Holmes finally behind bars

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Elizabeth Holmes was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire" with her company Theranos, which promised to detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes needing only a few drops of blood. In 2014 her company was valued at US $9bn, but by 2018 Theranos had collapsed. In 2022 convicted by a jury in California on four counts of fraud and was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.

Now in May 2023 Holmes is finally going to prison, we speak with retired biotech executive Anne Kopf-Sill who knew Holmes, about why it took so long?

Headlines:

  • AFL racism investigation wraps up
  • New revelations from Dawson trial
  • Lehrmann drops News Life lawsuit
  • NATIO to remove PFAS from products
  • Crown fined $450m

Follow The Briefing:
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1. The Briefing Headlines May 31 (00:00:00)

2. The Briefing Topic (00:07:03)

1406 episodes

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Elizabeth Holmes was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire" with her company Theranos, which promised to detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes needing only a few drops of blood. In 2014 her company was valued at US $9bn, but by 2018 Theranos had collapsed. In 2022 convicted by a jury in California on four counts of fraud and was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.

Now in May 2023 Holmes is finally going to prison, we speak with retired biotech executive Anne Kopf-Sill who knew Holmes, about why it took so long?

Headlines:

  • AFL racism investigation wraps up
  • New revelations from Dawson trial
  • Lehrmann drops News Life lawsuit
  • NATIO to remove PFAS from products
  • Crown fined $450m

Follow The Briefing:
Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast
Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAU
Twitter: @TheBriefingAU

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  continue reading

Chapters

1. The Briefing Headlines May 31 (00:00:00)

2. The Briefing Topic (00:07:03)

1406 episodes

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