Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks President Trump to commute her sentence
Disgraced CEO is latest prisoner to ask Trump to commute sentence
- Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the defunct blood-testing startup Theranos, has sought a commutation of her 11-year prison sentence from Donald Trump.
- Her request, submitted last year, is currently listed as pending on the Justice Department website.
- Holmes was convicted in January 2022 on four counts of fraud and conspiracy for misleading investors about Theranos's unproven blood-testing technology.
- She began serving her sentence in May 2023 at a federal prison in Texas, with a projected release date of March 2032.
- Holmes and former Theranos COO Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani were also ordered to repay $452m to victims.