Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 3:19 a.m. No.14557841   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7842 >>7850 >>7852 >>8290

https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2021/09/10/opening-statements-in-holmes-trial-give-competing-versions-of-theranos-claims

Opening statements in Holmes trial give competing versions of Theranos claims

Founder of infamous blood testing company faces 20-year prison sentence, $3M in fines

Prosecutors delivered a scathing opening statement in federal court Wednesday in the trial against Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of the infamous blood testing company Theranos, describing their case as one "about fraud, about lying and cheating to get money."

Holmes is charged with 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, doctors and patients. If convicted, Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison and $3 million in fines. Theranos, valued at $9 billion at its peak, dissolved in 2018.

Lead prosecutor Robert Leach told the jury of seven men and five women in federal court in San Jose that Theranos became increasingly desperate for funding as it struggled to develop a blood-testing technology.

"Out of time and out of money, the defendant decided to mislead," Leach said.

The government says it will show that Theranos' blood tests, supposedly able to detect cancer, diabetes, syphilis and other diseases based on a single finger prick, were instead done with machines that could be found in any other blood testing laboratory.

Leach said the government will prove that Holmes "dazzled Walgreens and Safeway" with false claims and used a forged report from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as a supposed endorsement of the technology, when in fact Pfizer "gave the opposite conclusions."

Leach said Holmes used glowing but ultimately misleading media coverage of her and Theranos to raise millions of dollars from investors.

Leach also told the jury about a series of witnesses who will testify that they took the Theranos test and received false results about cancers and pregnancies.

Defense lawyer Lance Wade argued that although Theranos failed, "failure is not a crime," describing Holmes as "believ(ing) with all of her being that (the Theranos technology) could transform health care."

He painted a picture of an idealistic young woman committed to creating a system of miniaturized lab tests who "decided to take a leap" and founded a company "to turn the idea into something real."

Wade emphasized the outsized influence of Holmes' business partner and former love interest, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani.

"Trusting and relying on Mr. Balwani as her adviser was one of her big mistakes," Wade said.

Balwani is also charged with wire fraud and will be tried separately.

Wade also pointed to Holmes' youth — age 20 when she brought in Balwani, who was 37 at the time — and her reliance on "a slew" of scientists, engineers, business people and law firms in building the company and dealing with regulators and the public.

Rejecting the claim that investors, who put in over $700 million, were defrauded, Wade described funders as "sophisticated people who hoped that Theranos would be the next big thing … and decided to make a wager."

As for the doctors and patients that the government plans to call as witnesses to failed tests, Wade urged jurors to keep a tally in their notebooks and to tote that up against the 8 million Theranos tests that were administered while the company was still in business.

He predicted that the government will challenge about 20 of those results, or .0000025%. He also said the government would challenge only 23, or about 10%, of the lab tests (known as "assays") that Theranos performed and that it would be unable to link those tests to particular patients or sites.

The government then called as its first witness Denise Yam, an auditor who joined Theranos in 2006 as a corporate controller.

The trial was scheduled to continue Friday but has been postponed to Tuesday, Sept. 14. The delay was due to a juror who was potentially exposed to COVID-19 and was awaiting test results, according to multiple media reports.

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 3:24 a.m. No.14557845   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7846 >>7847

>>14557843

>“Oh so sorry, he died. Should have been vaccinated.”

https://apnews.com/article/health-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-9845c7257300ff6546c20489e642a1ea

Questioning a catchphrase: ‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’

This summer’s coronavirus resurgence has been labeled a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” by government officials from President Joe Biden on down.

The sound bite captures the glaring reality that unvaccinated people overwhelmingly account for new cases and serious infections, with a recent study of government data showing that hospitalization rates among unvaccinated adults were 17 times higher than among those fully vaccinated.

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 3:31 a.m. No.14557856   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14557850

>the government will prove that Holmes .. used a forged report from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as a supposed endorsement of the technology, when in fact Pfizer "gave the opposite conclusions

>>14557852

>Something seems a little fishy about this

 

What if we catch them being complicit in the fraud, but they're trying to spin it off as "Uuh no! We said the opposite! Here's a report!"

 

Was Theranos testing being lined up for Wuhan Soup?

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 3:36 a.m. No.14557862   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14557858

>It sure appears that his primary focus was to maintain his hands in that symbolic shape.

https://i.imgur.com/jcJzP8C.png

https://i.imgur.com/18CeXEj.png

https://i.imgur.com/px5CQrl.png

https://i.imgur.com/nkSPdAT.png

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 4:23 a.m. No.14557926   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7934

>>14557919

>The 1 outlier was a bat who couldn't be reached for comment, as it was enjoying a hot bath with noodles.

Relaxing after a long day of being injected with gain of function viruses, it seems someone mistook our hard-working chiroptera for a popular rural dish and consumed the diligent worker.

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 5:12 a.m. No.14558002   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14558000

>The US national anthem being played at Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle.

https://streamable.com/pni800

 

The US national anthem being played at Changing of the Guard at Windsor Castle.

@ArmyInLondon

@USAinUK

#September11

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 5:38 a.m. No.14558063   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14558028

>A book about how to get the world to stop researching, thinking critically and learning the

>truth?

Did you trip and fall on a new line?

https://i.imgur.com/rTCZJat.png

Anonymous ID: a16076 Sept. 11, 2021, 5:55 a.m. No.14558127   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/house-needs-probe-of-hunter-biden-art-sales-rep-comer-says/

‘Insulting to the art ecosystem’: Pol calls for House probe of Hunter Biden sales

The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee ​wants the panel to investigate the sale of Hunter Biden’s artwork — which could earn President Biden’s son millions — and he has contacted the gallery owner to divulge details of the ethics deal he reached with the White House.

​”It is the Oversight Committee’s responsibly to scrutinize Mr. Biden’s business activities because he chooses to conduct them in the most murky and corrupt corners of international affairs,” ​Rep. ​James Comer ​(R-Ky.) wrote in the letter sent Tuesday and obtained by The Post.​

Comer pointed out that Hunter Biden’s New York art dealer, George Berges, is attaching hefty price tags to the works — far beyond even what Hunter believes they will fetch. ​

“The prices your gallery has set for these pieces by a new, untrained, celebrity artist are unprecedented,” ​Comer’s letter says. “One New York art adviser said such prices are ‘sort of insulting to the art ecosystem, as if anyone could do it.​