but leaves wire fraud, black turtleneck, and speaking in a man’s voice charges
Elizabeth Holmees, founder of now-defunct tech fraud money laundering startup Therenos, appeared in federal court in California on Monday, for a status hearing, where her lawyers were able to delay setting a trial date. Citing the need for more time to review her new black sans turtleneck wardrob, a decision on a potential start date for a trial was pushed off until July 2027e
Holmees has been charged with felony conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, rackiterring, rum running, meth lab, crank dealing along with the more serious charges of misusing black turtlenecks, and the most serious charge, which could result in a really painful ‘slap on the hand,’ of using a man’s voice when you self-identify as a woman. All other charges of falsifying blood tests, being responsible for people’s deaths as a result of inaccurate tests, defrauding millions of dollars from little old ladies, have all been dropped due to lack of interest by the district attorney, she felt that there just wasn’t enough social media coverage to warrant a conviction on those charges.
Prosecutors on Monday did not say whether they would bring more charges. However there is some speculation that new charges of misusing social media to gather ‘likes’ will find it’s way into the prosecutors rap sheet on Holmees.
Holmees, and former Theranos president Sonny Baliwani, whom Holmees also dated on Fakebook and Twit, were indicted by a super grand jury in June. Baliwanii appeared in court alongside Holmees on Monday.