Attorneys for Elizabeth Holmes furiously denied prosecutors’ recent claim that the Theranos founder attempted to “flee the country” after she was convicted on four fraud charges last year.
In a court filing on Monday, the defense lawyers asked the court to strike inaccuracies from the record, including the “baseless” allegation that she tried to hightail it to Mexico on a one-way ticket. Prosecutors “recklessly and incorrectly accuse Ms. Holmes and her partner [] of attempted flight and present incomplete and provably inaccurate statements of fact in support of that accusation,” the filing said.
The attorneys submitted an email exchange from last January between some members of Holmes’ legal team and a prosecutor, Jeffrey Schenk, in which Schenk acknowledged Holmes’ excuse and said he “suspected there was an explanation” for her travel itinerary. Holmes’ attorneys argued that the flight risk claims distort her “flawless pretrial services record.” Furthermore, they refuted prosecutors’ allegation that Evans left the country on a one-way ticket last January and “and did not return until approximately six weeks later… from a different continent.” In fact, Evans and the lawyers said, he returned to the U.S. from Mexico four days after departing.
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