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.
The sentence, delivered by Judge Edward Davila in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ends the unceremonious fall from grace for the former Silicon Valley darling. Holmes, who gave birth to her first child last year and is pregnant with her second, had sought no more than 18 months in prison as her punishment and pleaded with the court for home confinement.
