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    Elizabeth Holmes Promised Miracles By A Finger Prick. Her Fraud Trial Starts Tuesday

    Holmes and her former business partner and ex-boyfriend, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, have pleaded not guilty to charges of defrauding investors and patients of the blood-testing company Theranos.
    by Bobby Allyn Aug 30, 2021 4 minutes
    Sunny Balwani, former president and chief operating officer of Theranos Inc., center, exits federal court in San Jose, California, U.S., on Monday, April 22, 2019.

    Jury selection in the criminal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes starts on Tuesday, the beginning of a highly-anticipated legal showdown over one of the most spectacular Silicon Valley scandals in recent history.

    Federal prosecutors have charged Holmes and her former business partner and ex-boyfriend, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, with defrauding investors and patients of their blood-testing company Theranos, which Holmes and Balwani claimed would revolutionize laboratory medicine.

    Patients who were wrongly diagnosed by Theranos tests are set to testify against Holmes. Some had been told they were HIV positive. Another, who was pregnant at the time, was incorrectly told she had miscarried her baby.

    After the jury is chosen, opening arguments are slated to start on Sept. 8. The trial in San Jose, Calif. is

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