Holmes Goes To Texas Jail For 11-year Theranos Fraud

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Elizabeth Holmes is now in a Texas prison. She will serve eleven years for tricking everyone with her health tech company.

On Tuesday, Theranos founder Holmes arrived at a federal facility in Bryan. Officials were with her. Holmes smiled and wore a beige sweater, blue jeans, and glasses. She is 39 years old.

She wore a different outfit when she went to prison. It wasn't like what she wore as the CEO of her company. Back then she had a specific style. She wore a black turtleneck and red lipstick. Her company was exposed for lying about blood-testing. This resulted in her going to prison.

Holmes, a married mother-of-two, laughed and smiled as she entered the minimum-security federal women's prison camp. The camp is located 100 miles northwest of her hometown, Houston. She talked to her handlers while walking inside.

Her parents and husband Billy arrived in a Ford SUV and dropped her off. She said goodbye to them and took her last walk as a free woman. She won't be free for a while.

She finally arrived after more than a year since being convicted. The jury found her guilty on four felony charges of fraud and conspiracy in January of last year. She was sentenced last November for scamming investors out of $945 million.

Elizabeth Holmes goes to a prison camp for women. She will spend 11 years there. Holmes tricked people with her start-up, Theranos.

. Elizabeth Holmes is now prisoner number 24965-111 in federal prison. She arrived with her handlers and appeared to be happy. She was sentenced for taking $945 million from investors through fraud last November.

. She wore a different outfit when she went to prison. Now, she looked different than before.

Billy returned to the car after dropping her off at prison. She was emotional, saying goodbye to her family, who stood in black beside her. Her parents were included in the goodbye.

On Tuesday morning, she chatted with her handlers, beaming with a smile. Holmes enjoyed her last Memorial Day weekend with her family for a while.

. Holmes got to the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. The prison camp is a women's one and has minimum security. It's 100 miles away from Houston, her hometown.

The tech CEO smiled and went to prison in casual clothes. She was disgraced.

She went to jail with her husband, Billy. He waved goodbye to her from the car. Her parents were with her until she went inside.

Billy's parents brought baby William and newborn Invicta to their father's townhouse on Monday evening to spend the night.

Holmes, also known as federal prisoner number 24965-111, can't put her kids to bed tonight. This will continue for many nights.

Elizabeth went to prison in Texas. At the same time, Billy's mom took the kids to Seaworld in California. They were far away from each other, 1,400 miles apart.

She's living in a minimum security prison nicknamed 'Club Fed'. The place is not like Alcatraz. The inmates don't even have to sleep in cells.

She might share a 'dorm' with another criminal, Jen Shah. Jen was on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and is now serving a six-and-a-half-year jail sentence for a telemarketing scam.

Prisoners in Bryan stay in rooms with bunk beds. Four people stay in each room. The set-up is like a dormitory. Prisoners can buy hobby items from the commissary. The items cost $1.30 each. This includes crochet needles.

The fraudster enjoyed her last days with family in the sun. She knew she was going to prison and couldn't avoid it this time.

She will serve her prison term in a different state. Her house in San Diego, worth $9 million, where she lives with her partner and kids will be far away from her during this time.

Judge Edward Davila decided that the woman's new date for reporting to prison will be May 30. This means she got to spend the weekend with her family for Memorial Day before going to prison.

Holmes enjoyed a beach trip with her parents. This was captured in photos by DailyMail.com. Holmes is waiting for her sentence. She is spending time with her family. They have been staying with her. They are at their oceanfront home.

On Tuesday, Elizabeth Holmes arrived wearing beige sweater and blue jeans. She's the founder of Theranos and she's 39 years old.

. Holmes left the car. This was it. She was going to be in jail for 11 years.

reporting to jail, she wore glasses, her hair down, and a simple outfit.

The woman will serve her punishment in a different state, far from her expensive mansion in San Diego. She lives there with her partner and their kids, Billy Evans.

She arrived after being convicted on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy more than a year ago in January 2022.

Last Saturday, Holmes and Evans had a nice family time at a quiet beach named Tide Park that is just 2 miles away from their home. Meanwhile, her parents were busy doing some household chores which included buying groceries from Whole Foods Market.

Holmes' kids will grow up without their mom.

The CEO who did wrong was told to go to jail on April 27 but found a way to stay with her family for four more weeks. She did this by getting help from the legal system right before jail time.

The woman with two kids doesn't have to go to jail yet. The court put a pause on her prison date. This is so she can try to appeal her conviction.

Holmes used the same legal tactic as her ex-boyfriend Balwani. Balwani did this in March to avoid prison. Balwani had a reporting date of March 16.

Davila told Balwani to come on April 20. His appeal got rejected by the Ninth Circuit.

Holmes has a new prison-reporting date set for May 16 by the same judge. She tried to stay out of prison while appealing her conviction, but the court rejected her bid. She was convicted of fraud and conspiracy.

Holmes has to pay a $500,000 fine as punishment. In addition, she has to pay $452 million in restitution. This ruling was made by Davila earlier this month.

Holmes's legal team asked Davila to agree to a May 30 reporting time for her stay in prison. This would allow her to fix certain things, one of which is child care for her children.

Susan and William Evans go for a walk on Memorial Day Monday with their daughter Grace and grandson William. William is the son of Elizabeth Holmes, who is a convicted felon.

Elizabeth Holmes enjoyed Memorial Day weekend with her family at the San Diego beach. It was her last weekend as a free woman. She spent time in the sun.

Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans walked back from the beach in San Diego. They were with their two children, William (2) and Invicta (3 months old).

A person who was found guilty of fraud will go to a federal prison on Tuesday. This person postponed their start date a month ago. They are now 39 years old.

Holmes wore a black Alo sweat suit, sandals, and a big hat before going to prison. She held her new baby, who was covered with a blanket. She looked comfortable and casual in her outfit.

Holmes was liked as the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. She lied about an invention that could change blood testing. The invention uses small amounts of blood from a finger prick. Harvard University and Time liked her invention too.

At 19 years old, the mother of two left Stanford University. After leaving, she started a company called Theranos.

She received almost $1 billion in funding from big investors like Tim Draper, Donald Lucas, and Dixon Doll, as well as heirs of Amway, Walmart, and Cox Communications founders, and tech/media leaders like Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch.

Holmes got a lot of money from famous people in business and tech. But then, The Wall Street Journal found out that she lied. They published articles about it in October 2015.

Holmes became very rich because of her stake in Theranos, worth $4.5 billion.

During the trial, she lived with her children's father in a big Silicon Valley house. She liked being famous and rich but didn't sell her company stock.

. She will serve her sentence for defrauding investors and patients of her now-defunct blood-testing company, Theranos. Holmes was once a highly successful entrepreneur who was considered a visionary in her field. However, her downfall came when it was revealed that her company's technology didn't actually work properly. This led to criminal charges against her, including wire fraud and conspiracy. Holmes was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison, although she will likely serve less time than that due to good behavior. Many people were shocked by the scandal surrounding Theranos, and Elizabeth Holmes' recent sentence has only added further fuel to the fire.

. Holmes appears in the documentary 'The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley'. The documentary covers a big fraud that happened in Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth Holmes, who was 29 at the time, is in a photo with a small container of blood. This was taken at the Theranos office in California on June 30th, 2014.

On September 22, 2014, Forbes Magazine took pictures of Elizabeth Holmes.

Elizabeth Holmes went to court in San Jose, California on March 17, 2023. She went through security to get there.

Holmes got invited by President Bill Clinton in 2015 to speak at a panel. The panel was for the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. Alibaba's Executive Chairman Jack Ma also spoke at the panel.

She may have been running a scam. Evidence showed she tried to stop the investigation from being published.

John Carreyrou went to court because of the campaign. He wrote those stories about Holmes. He positioned himself to see Holmes when she spoke.

Holmes agreed to spy on workers who exposed issues with the blood test. This was done to intimidate them.

Tyler Shultz is one of the whistleblowers. His grandfather was George Shultz, a former Secretary of State. Holmes was friends with Tyler and got him to join the Theranos board.

People who support Holmes think that she had good intentions all along. They also believe that the Justice Department treated her unfairly by blaming her for things that weren't her fault.

They say she used the same tactics as other tech execs, like Elon Musk. Musk made untrue claims about Tesla's self-driving cars.

Holmes insisted she was not guilty and defended herself for seven days in court, which drew crowds lining up at midnight for one of the limited seats in the San Jose courtroom.

She got convicted for the offenses in the end.

Elizabeth Holmes used to have a serious voice. But now, she wants to be called Liz after getting caught committing fraud. In 2022, she was in court. There's a photo of her in court.

Holmes tried to change how people saw her before leaving prison. She acted like a relaxed mom who loved being with her children at the beach.

She admitted to the NYT that her voice and clothes were fake. She tricked the tech and science community and earned millions with her business.

Holmes pretended to have a serious voice when she spoke to the media. However, it wasn't her real voice.

She said she doesn't wear black turtlenecks, red lipstick or use an authoritative voice.

Holmes changed her image to show that she is a caring mom with two children. She wears a bucket hat and sunglasses and likes to take walks at the San Diego Zoo.

She volunteered at a rape crisis center last year. She did this to show that she is relatable. She defended her actions. She plans to be a health-tech innovator in the future.

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