All Elizabeth Holmes articles
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PremiumMaking a pitch for compliance: The great chase for stakeholder engagement
Speakers at Compliance Week’s Ethics and Compliance Summit swapped engagement strategies rooted in human behavior, including with through the use of generative AI, free merchandise, and live events, to meet employees where they are.
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ArticleElizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11-plus years in prison
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday after being convicted of fraud earlier this year for her actions as head of the defunct blood-testing company.
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ArticleCarreyrou lauds whistleblowers’ roles in helping expose Theranos fraud
John Carreyrou, whose reporting exposed blood-testing company Theranos as a fraud, discussed the vital role lab director Adam Rosendorff and his other colleagues that came forward played as sources during a fireside chat at Compliance Week’s National Conference.
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ArticleThe moral of Elizabeth Holmes’s story: Focus on facts, not facades
The depiction of Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu miniseries “The Dropout” bears out the tendency to filter judgment of the Theranos founder through the lens of her gender—but it’s her actions that should matter.
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ArticleTop 10 reasons to attend Compliance Week 2022
A keynote with two SEC commissioners; interactive sessions on global sanctions, ESG, and ethical leadership; and a new conference location and format highlight Dave Lefort’s list of reasons to be excited for CW’s first in-person event in nearly three years.
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ArticleElizabeth Holmes verdict primes DOJ for white-collar crackdown
For Department of Justice leadership that recently laid out plans to strengthen their response to corporate crime, the outcome of the Elizabeth Holmes trial is an arrow in the quiver for what might be a new age of white-collar enforcement.
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ArticleNeed to know: Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos trial set to begin
Elizabeth Holmes’s legacy is on the line, as the long-awaited trial of the disgraced founder and CEO of blood-testing company Theranos begins Wednesday.
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ArticleCarreyrou at TPRM: Theranos warning signs were there, but partners failed to spot them
John Carreyrou explained to third-party risk professionals at CW’s TPRM Virtual Summit that the mistakes made by Theranos’s business partners were entirely preventable—had they done their proper due diligence.
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ArticleElizabeth Holmes might seek ‘mental disease’ defense at Theranos trial
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of now-defunct blood testing company Theranos, is exploring the idea of using “mental disease or defect” as part of her defense during her criminal fraud trial, which is set to begin in March.
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ArticleJohn Carreyrou at TPRM: How to spot a wolf in Steve Jobs’ clothing
John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who exposed Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes as frauds, will be the keynote speaker on Day 2 of Compliance Week’s TPRM virtual conference Sept. 18.
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Theranos founder charged in wire fraud scheme
A federal grand jury on June 14 indicted the former founder and chief operating officer of private healthcare and life sciences company, Theranos, arising from allegations that they engaged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients.
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Post-mortem on Theranos—where were the controls?
Theranos’s fall from grace is one large-scale compliance failure. The reason? It’s all about internal controls, writes The Man From FCPA.
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Theranos appoints chief compliance officer
Amid a heap of regulatory trouble, start-up life sciences company Theranos announced the appointment of two new executives to lead the company’s regulatory, quality and compliance efforts, including naming a chief compliane officer. The company also created a new compliance and quality committee. Jaclyn Jaeger has the details.