Decide in Theranos fraud case orders 14-hour psychological take a look at for Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, November 4, 2019, at the U.S. District Court House in San Jose, California.

Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for movement listening to on Monday, November 4, 2019, on the U.S. District Court docket Home in San Jose, California. (credit score: Getty | Yichuan Cao)

Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced founder and ex-CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing startup, Theranos—could use a psychological situation as a protection towards a slew of federal fraud fees, in keeping with a court docket doc filed this week.

Holmes and Theranos’ former president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani have been charged in June 2018 with 9 counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Federal prosecutors allege the pair—who have been romantically concerned throughout the alleged crimes—engaged in conspiracy to defraud Theranos buyers out of greater than $100 million and defraud docs and sufferers into falsely believing the corporate’s defective blood-testing expertise might reliably carry out correct well being assessments with simply drops of blood from a finger-prick.

Based on the court docket doc filed this week, Holmes—who’s now being tried individually from Balwani—notified the court docket final December that she plans to submit “skilled proof referring to a psychological illness or defect or every other psychological situation” that has bearing on the problem of guilt. The skilled offering such proof was named within the doc as psychologist Mindy Mechanic, of California State College, Fullerton.

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