'Concerned Citizen' At Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' Trial Turns Out To Be Family
A mysterious attendee at Elizabeth Holmes' fraud trial derided the case against her to reporters. Turns out, he was not who he claimed to be, but rather the father of Holmes' partner.
by Bobby Allyn
Sep 14, 2021
4 minutes
During the first day of jury selection at the federal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, an incognito San Diego hotel magnate pulled a large Rice Krispie Treat from his pocket.
Loudly. So loudly, in fact, that the judge's voice was barely audible in the back of the courtroom over the sound of his wiggling the brick-shaped snack out of tightly-wrapped plastic.
"My name's Hanson," said the man, wearing a baseball cap and a Patagonia puffer jacket.
He was sociable and chatty, adjectives that rarely describe people attending one of the most high-profile trials in Silicon Valley history. Holmes, the former head of the blood-testing
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