{"id":1184998,"date":"2022-01-03T21:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184998"},"modified":"2022-01-03T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T02:19:45","slug":"flashback-figures-from-across-political-spectrum-praised-elizabeth-holmes-amazing-biotech-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-figures-from-across-political-spectrum-praised-elizabeth-holmes-amazing-biotech-company\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Figures From Across Political Spectrum Praised Elizabeth Holmes\u2019 \u2018Amazing\u2019 Biotech Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-figures-from-across-political-spectrum-praised-elizabeth-holmes-amazing-biotech-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184998&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud on Monday, only after she managed to convince figures from across the political spectrum that her company would revolutionize blood testing.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes, who claimed that her biotechnology firm would create cheaper tests that used less blood, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/elizabeth-holmes-doj-guilty-theranos-fraud\/\">convicted<\/a> of four counts of fraud. The jury <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/jury-deadlocked-on-3-counts-in-trial-of-alleged-fraudster-elizabeth-holmes\/\">deadlocked<\/a> on three counts, and Holmes was found not guilty of four others. She had denied all charges, with her lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/08\/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-trial-department-of-justice\/\">arguing<\/a> that her \u201cmistakes are not crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to lying to investors, Holmes managed to convince President Joe Biden and foreign policy luminaries of her company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is inspiration. It is amazing to me, Elizabeth, what you\u2019ve been able to do. What\u2019s most impressive to me is you\u2019re not only making these lab tests more accessible \u2026 empowering people whether they live in the barrio or a mansion, putting them in a position to help take control of their own health,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2015\/07\/24\/biden-visits-theranos-lab-part-healthcare-innovation-summit\/30634739\/\">told<\/a> Holmes at a 2015 meeting at Theranos\u2019 headquarters, when he was vice president.<\/p>\n<p>She also got Gen. James Mattis and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to sit on Theranos\u2019 Board of Directors. Mattis even <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/29\/blood-testing-company-scandal-may-follow-mattis-into-trump-cabinet\/\">intervened<\/a> on Theranos\u2019 behalf with the Department of Defense after a DOD official requested an investigation into the company\u2019s potentially illegal distribution of medical technology.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/22\/technology\/james-mattis-elizabeth-holmes-trial.html\">testified<\/a> that he viewed Holmes as \u201csharp, articulate, [and] committed,\u201d but after a period of time \u201cdidn\u2019t know what to believe about Theranos anymore.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/27\/the-inventor-producer-elizabeth-holmes\/\"><strong>(RELATED: \u2018The Inventor\u2019 Producer Claims Elizabeth Holmes Lied To Her \u2018Quite A Bit\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other members of the Board included Senators Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat, and Bill Frist, a Republican from Tennessee who served as Majority Leader. Frist is a heart surgeon who currently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2021\/12\/01\/former-u-s-senate-majority-leader-bill-frist-to-lead-discussion-on-how-to-make-congress-fight-less-compromise-more\/\">teaches<\/a> at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7346484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7346484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US defense secretary Jim Mattis took the stand September 22, 2021 in the high-profile fraud trial of fallen biotech star Elizabeth Holmes, telling a Silicon Valley court he was captivated by the promises she made about her blood testing system. Mattis served on the board of Holmes\u2019s now defunct startup Theranos, which looked set to revolutionize medical testing before it crashed in a blaze of fraud claims. (Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign also embraced Holmes, promoting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/03\/21\/clinton-fundraiser-theranos\/\">fundraiser<\/a> hosted by the fraudster with a $2,700 cost of entry. The campaign\u2019s chairman, John Podesta, knew of Holmes\u2019 business troubles, emails released by Wikileaks <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/08\/clinton-camp-worried-about-fundraiser-with-fraud-ceo-host-went-ahead-with-it-anyway\/\">revealed<\/a>. Holmes originally planned to host the fundraiser at Theranos\u2019 Silicon Valley offices, but moved the event, billed as a conversation with Chelsea Clinton about female entrepreneurs, to a private home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud on Monday, only after she managed to convince figures from across the political spectrum that her company would revolutionize blood testing.Holmes, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}