Former Theranos Executive Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years

[@twhitney4093]

Elizabeth Holmes did NOT apologize. She did the whole "I'm sorry you feel that way....." schtick. She was trying to play the delicate little flower, to avoid prison.

[@PungiFungi]

She apologized for failing, not for stealing people's money, or endangered patients' health, or harassing and threatening whistleblowers. What a piece of work.

[@twhitney4093]

@@PungiFungi Exactly! So infuriating.

[@dejavu9605]

Elizabeth Holmes is way more guilty than this guy.

[@ronniemead805]

I bet they wanted to hang the whole thing on the brown man and let the "innocent" little white girl (who was abused with fifteen million dollars of his money) go free. I dont feel sorry for him one bit. All these brown and black men want whities; not realizing how treacherous they can be.

[@Ahsfbvox]

Just finished The Dropout. I was in absolute awe how arrogant him and Elizabeth were throughout the whole ordeal. Can’t say I feel sorry for either one.

[@sergeantrock7566]

Good 13 years, should have got more. Fighting for a liar!

[@seagram13]

It is unbelievable the galactic sized stupidity treating the woman like the victim and the guy as the villain.

[@cynthiah.3015]

Why does he get more time then Elizabeth Holmes? She was the lead? I guess being pregnant worked to get less time.

[@mr.anonymousone8294]

She’s white

[@applejuicejunkie316]

I'm surprised Elizabeth got any time at all. She was supposed to say, "I'm white, pretty (lol jk) and pregnant. Let me get off with a warning."

[@mistrjt9213]

@@applejuicejunkie316 She looks like a female robot version of Mark Zuckerberg.

[@PungiFungi]

Not only less time but report to prison nearly two months after. I am expecting her to be pregnant again in April 2023

[@internetpolification]

@@mr.anonymousone8294 that’s irrelevant. She was found not guilty on four charges concerning patients. Balwani wasn’t. That’s why his sentence is higher. As to your daft comment, colour has nothing to do with it

[@VK.x]

Disgusting he doesn’t even apologise! Throw away the key

[@Gio-ue8ps]

I think it’s ridiculous he got more time than Elizabeth Holmes. She was the mastermind. She’s lying to get herself out of trouble

[@truthmatters758]

nah she just white

[@MVK_GS]

And, he could not get pregnant.

[@benclark5225]

They both took "fake-it-till-u-make-it" to the criminal level. Investors were bilked out of a few bucks they could afford to lose. But empolyee lives were ruined. The public was put at risk. Who really paid the price for this fraud?

[@loucipher7782]

i still remember a decade ago everyone is hyped about this elizabeth holmes lady and my first thought was "wtf is she talking about? sounds like a scam"

[@mistrjt9213]

Bye, Felicia! Sunny was the worst person to work with or work for, *EVER* .

[@alexm566]

Did you work there? 🤔

[@ronniemead805]

Never be inspired by fear. You cant build lasting success based on fear.

[@pollakron]

13 years in a country club jail. 2/3 out on good behavior...they will live better than me and you down the road

[@patriciavandevelde5469]

I don t think so a friend died in a florida after 6 years! Food is overcooked, violence etc!

[@MVK_GS]

Didn't work that way for federal crimes. Plus, there's no parole in federal prison.

[@mels2180]

People were harmed, and they get to go off to a country club form of prison… what’s wrong with this system

[@xl000]

Doing 200 analysis from a single drop of blood doesn’t pass the smell test TBH. At best it could have produced a few positives for the easiest ones, and lots of false negatives for the analysis that are more complex to execute.

[@happierabroad]

I don't understand something. Before Sunny got involved with Theranos, he was already a multi-millionaire. So why didn't he just retire and live happily ever after and go to SE Asia or some other paradise place?

[@flanagamer]

Because he was in love with Holmes for some ungodly reason 😅 and we all know people do crazy things for love

[@ronniemead805]

He was taken by the delicate blonde woman. No indian or black women for these men.

[@jjwhy321y3]

He probably wanted more $$$. He was a tech guy, not a scientist or chemist. Probably bought into the charade (at least early on). Also was possibly in love w her.

[@benclark5225]

Answer: He was bitten by the Midas bug and got the curse. No pile of gold was gonna be enough.

[@benclark5225]

Greed has no bottom.

[@vetdoc35]

Perdue, Theranos, Enron, Madoff Investment Securities LLC....... What is wrong with the US ???

[@chuladachulada873]

Disgusting to watch how some are privileged with crime and consequences are minimum! 🤔

[@mytravls]

First time ever in America i realized. Justice is a joke and that too a big one

[@Tenzin62]

I think one of the more odious things about is dude is his bullying. Iworked for a man like this one. A bully. Bringing his bully friends into the company. Throwing his weight around. Enjoy jail scumbag

[@kareenwatson6084]

How comes he got more time than Elizabeth? Lesson: Do not envy these super rich and successful people.

[@truthmatters758]

she’s white that why

[@janetcampbell9286]

Elizabeth Holmes deserves to be jailed too! She needs to serve all 11 yrs. no early release for being a good prisoner.

[@loucipher7782]

even dangerous killers get released early all the time so i dont see any problem with that

[@_Rafiki.]

No reason he couldn't have cashed out earlier on. Had he become greedy or just thinking with his 'head'

[@alexm566]

He went from young educated Indian who worked at Microsoft in its prime making millions to an industry titan in a 9 billion company to an internet mockery fraud..

[@_Rafiki.]

Made all the money but still wanted more

[@Luciano-jg5ws]

3:05 that drawing tho lol

[@bbslick1gonzales130]

I'm sure she wasn't the only one that got rich off of this whoever made money on it should be prosecuted or paid the money back to those who have paid for the service

[@PungiFungi]

Channing Robertson comes to mind. How much Lizzie paid him throughout the years? He should return the dough.

[@markrigg6623]

Won't be real sunny where he's going...........

[@teda4229]

What about Bankman Fried?

[@johnthompson7548]

He screwed over poor people. No jail time. Holmes screwed over rich people so they will throw away the key.

[@gilbertvaldez5176]

😂😂😂😂 coppersmith was so confident

[@renbukancho]

He is serving in FCI terminal island San Pedro California

[@JulianaVela]

So very disturbing to watch.

[@robertchan13]

Does he have to pay a fine?

[@nickv4073]

$250K for each count. 12 counts so $250K x 12.

[@almonddelacruz7169]

He ignores the sentence!! You know why?? He has billions thats it!!!!

[@sclogse1]

Busy week, no?

[@coutureprincessx]

he's so narcissistic

[@mikhailraphael7035]

Integrity : zero It must have been a case of hoping against hope to get the tech working when the technology didn't exist.. Should have been done as a university R&D project rather than a business with investor money.

[@realnapster1522]

It’s ok to start a business for a new idea but you can’t mislead investors and lie about the tech. That’s the crime here.

[@pete6705]

​@@realnapster1522 Yes, legally you can start a business for anything, as long as you aren't lying and committing fraud. But it does seem like they went right from the basic concept to fund raising without ever doing any research at all to determine if her idea was even physically possible. Elizabeth wasn't a scientist or engineer, had never worked in that field, as far as I can tell she just overnight came up with the idea to revolutionize blood diagnostics without having a single clue on how that would work, and then went straight to investors. It would be like if I woke up one morning and said I want to build a car that is 100x more efficient and 100x cheaper, and then started calling up investors. It does seem like there should have been some kind of R&D phase

[@WatchCrew578]

Jailbirds

[@Junk65]

Crooks get rich

[@royfr8136]

He got more than the female who was the figurehead of the company... what a (not) surprise. Also, they will be out very soon.... -

[@gilbertvaldez5176]

Range schmange they both should have gotten Madoff time!

[@AA-wd2or]

He look so arogant of course he get more. They made huge damege to the industry and longlasted disstrust to other honest and innocent young reasrchers.

[@DonnieSpill]

Such a chad!!! Tapping a 18yr old (prob other girls too) for over a decade. My hero!!!

[@hrram3414]

LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

[@ronniemead805]

For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me (Job 3:25).

[@dr.garyhatcher8364]

By by sunny boy.

[@truthtruth9323]

I am sure he is close friend of Nawaz Shariff family of Pakistan.

[@naintarabatool1150]

He supports Imran Khan

[@almonddelacruz7169]

That old man is from india???

[@KaranSingh-lx8xd]

Pakistan

[@cyberpunked77]

🤣🤣

[@dannyphan1352]

Do they serve Indian food in jail?

[@naintarabatool1150]

He's Pakistani

[@Zendrive13]

Holmes was polishing balwani’s knob 🐒