{"id":1743027,"date":"2022-11-17T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743027"},"modified":"2022-11-17T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:18:24","slug":"cory-booker-implores-judge-to-give-theranos-fraudster-holmes-a-fair-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cory-booker-implores-judge-to-give-theranos-fraudster-holmes-a-fair-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker Implores Judge To Give Theranos Fraudster Holmes a \u2018Fair\u2019 Sentence"},"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%2Fcory-booker-implores-judge-to-give-theranos-fraudster-holmes-a-fair-sentence%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=1743027&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democratic senator says Elizabeth Holmes has &#8216;sincere desire to help others&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/benjamin-wilson\/\" title=\"Posts by Benjamin Wilson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Benjamin Wilson<\/a> \u2022 November 17, 2022 6:15 pm  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) last week requested that a federal judge give Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes a &#8220;fair and just sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Holmes, who was convicted in January on four counts of defrauding investors and faces up to 20 years in prison, &#8220;has within her a sincere desire to help others&#8221; by fighting world hunger and climate change, Booker wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.327949\/gov.uscourts.cand.327949.1642.3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to Judge Edward Davila. &#8220;I knew Ms. Holmes for about six years before charges were brought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Davila is expected to issue a sentence Friday for Holmes, who was found guilty of lying to investors about her company\u2019s blood testing machines, which she falsely claimed could run multiple tests on a single drop of blood. Theranos was once valued at $9 billion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Booker&#8217;s letter comes as critics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2022-11-14\/column-crypto-tycoon-sam-bankman-fried-didnt-lose-a-16-billion-fortune-his-fortune-was-never-real\">compare<\/a> Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ill-gotten-gains-crypto-kingpins-donations-put-democrats-in-the-hot-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">megadonor<\/a>\u00a0Sam Bankman-Fried&#8217;s crypto company FTX, which is under federal investigation for defrauding investors of billions of dollars, to Holmes&#8217;s failed company.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Theranos made Holmes a favorite among Democrats and the Obama administration, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/clinton-donor-obama-ambassador-charged-massive-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/clinton-donor-obama-ambassador-charged-massive-fraud\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668806982255000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1gG2IY9VKPviD1jnNYfReQ\">named<\/a> her a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Then-vice president Joe Biden toured her Newark, Calif., facilities in 2015, praising the company for its &#8220;confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Talk about being inspired,&#8221; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20150723006686\/en\/Theranos-Hosts-Vice-President-Biden-for-Summit-on-a-New-Era-of-Preventive-Health-Care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20150723006686\/en\/Theranos-Hosts-Vice-President-Biden-for-Summit-on-a-New-Era-of-Preventive-Health-Care&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668806982255000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1GNvgLrJUlzfUa9_60OAMs\">said<\/a> at the event. &#8220;This is inspiration. It is amazing to me, Elizabeth, what you&#8217;ve been able to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Former president Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/clinton-foundation-white-house-celebrated-ceo-of-secretive-biotech-company-now-under-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/clinton-foundation-white-house-celebrated-ceo-of-secretive-biotech-company-now-under-scrutiny\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1668806982255000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2zBM42LleHvQhjTDbVM_iU\">hosted<\/a> Holmes at the Clinton Global Initiative\u2019s annual meeting in 2015. The discussion revolved around bringing &#8220;equality&#8221; into health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) last week requested that a federal judge give Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes a &#8220;fair and just sentence.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Cory Booker Implores Judge To Give Theranos Fraudster Holmes a \u2018Fair\u2019 Sentence appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1743030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743027","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\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}