Fraud Trial of Theranos Exec (No, the Other One) Delayed Over Covid-19 Scare
on Wednesday but U.S. District Judge Edward Davila announced that an unnamed person who was present during jury selection had been in contact withcovid-19. It’s not immediately clear if the first unnamed person had been selected to serve on the jury.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, was already convicted of four counts of fraud for lying to investors about her bullshit blood testing company and is scheduled to be sentenced in September. Balwani’s trial had been delayed repeated over covid-19 concerns, not unlike the trial of Holmes, but there was yet another wrinkle added recently that held up Balwani’s day in court: Too many potential jurors had apparently seen the Hulu series ‘The DropOpening statements in Mr. Balwani’s trial were pushed back already this week because of extended juror questioning. Part of the challenge, particularly for the defense, was that many jurors said they had followed Ms.
Many said they had watched a recently released television series based on Theranos on streaming service Hulu—which has had numerous advertisements on social media and elsewhere.
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