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Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Where is she getting the money to afford these appeal lawyers? Wasn’t she sued until she was broke?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think really rich people ever truly go broke, they just lose all visible cash or assets and have a good stash spread out throughout various other hiding places.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And for whatever reason they can get away with offshore tax havens unlike the rest of us plebs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it’s a mystery.

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