The Latest Breaking News from Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes appealed her criminal fraud conviction, two weeks after she was ordered to serve 11 1/4 years in prison for deceiving investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos Inc.

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What do Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried and Al Capone have in common? No, they are not all convicted felons. Capone did serve time for tax evasion, and Holmes was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding the public through her blood-testing company Theranos. But Bankman-Fried, founder of the…

Read exactly what the judge told former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes before he sentenced her to 11 years in federal prison.

‘If you have to go, it’s a good place to go,’ a prison consultant said

Raising hundreds of millions dollars sends a startup's valuation soaring. It can also make serious prison time all but inevitable for those in Holmes' situation.

Court observers said the judge intended to set an example.

Upon hearing that Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, social media erupted with vituperative glee. A lot of people seem to think that the 38-year-old Theranos founder, convicted of fraud earlier this year, is getting what she deserves.

Holmes was convicted in January after the former entrepreneur hoodwinked investors of a failed blood testing company.