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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute prison sentence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/elizabeth-holmes-trump-fraud-sentenceUS justice department's website shows the disgraced former CEO petitioned Donald Trump over fraud conviction
Guess it all comes down to how much cold cash she can funnel into trump's off-shore accounts.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute prison sentence
US justice department's website shows the disgraced former CEO petitioned Donald Trump over fraud conviction
Marina Dunbar and agencies
Wed 21 Jan 2026 17.28 EST
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked Donald Trump to commute her sentence after she was convicted of defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9bn, a notice on the US Department of Justice website showed.
The justice department's office of the pardon attorney lists the status of her commutation request, which was made last year, as pending.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Holmes, 37, founder of the collapsed blood-testing company Theranos, was convicted of four counts of defrauding investors and, in November 2022, was sentenced to serve more than 11 years in prison.
A university dropout with no medical training, Holmes had fooled regulators and some of the world's richest people, including Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger and Larry Ellison, into believing she had figured out a way to test for a range of health conditions with just a pinprick of blood.
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US justice department's website shows the disgraced former CEO petitioned Donald Trump over fraud conviction
Marina Dunbar and agencies
Wed 21 Jan 2026 17.28 EST
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked Donald Trump to commute her sentence after she was convicted of defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9bn, a notice on the US Department of Justice website showed.
The justice department's office of the pardon attorney lists the status of her commutation request, which was made last year, as pending.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Holmes, 37, founder of the collapsed blood-testing company Theranos, was convicted of four counts of defrauding investors and, in November 2022, was sentenced to serve more than 11 years in prison.
A university dropout with no medical training, Holmes had fooled regulators and some of the world's richest people, including Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger and Larry Ellison, into believing she had figured out a way to test for a range of health conditions with just a pinprick of blood.
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