The downfall of the company was dramatised in the acclaimed show The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews
Ramesh"Sunny" Balwani, the former president of Theranos, the US company that claimed to have revolutionised blood testing, has been found guilty of fraud.
The trials were held separately because Holmes alleged that she had suffered abuse at Balwani's hands that had driven her to mislead investors. Balwani, 57, has denied the claims.Founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Holmes, Theranos was a Silicon Valley darling that shut down after the unravelling of its claims to have invented a revolutionary finger-prick blood test.
A jury convicted Holmes on two counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud after seven days of deliberation and a three-month trial.
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