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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Court rules Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals against sentence

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must begin serving a prison sentence while she appeals her conviction on fraud over the failed blood-testing startup, a US court has ruled.

Holmes raised nearly $1billion (£800m) from wealthy investors such as Rupert Murdoch for Theranos, which she promised would provide revolutionary tech to scan for hundreds of diseases and other potential problems with just a few drops of blood.

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