- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set Tuesday to begin her 11-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp in Texas.
- “Some people are like ‘I want to be her friend,’” a female inmate told The Wall Street Journal.
- The 39-year-old Holmes has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $452 million in restitution to financiers to whom she duped about her biotech start-up Theranos, falsely claimed that it invented a machine that could run complex tests with just one drop of blood.
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Theranos Swindler Holmes Set To Enter Prison, Female Inmates Hope To Make New Friend
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco. Holmes announced Oct. 6, 2016, that Theranos will close its labs and wellness centers and lay off about 340 employees in Arizona, California and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
