Elizabeth Holmes tried to flee U.S. after conviction, prosecutors allege

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(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/21/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-fraud-prosecutors-prison-conviction-flight-risk/stories/202301210066

Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO, booked a one-way plane ticket to Mexico that was scheduled to depart just weeks after she was convicted of fraud in January 2022, a recent court filing says. In the document, filed Thursday, prosecutors describe the booking as an “attempt to flee the country.”

Government attorneys learned of the flight — departing Jan. 26, 2022 — on Jan. 23 that year, and alerted Holmes’ legal team by email. They replied that she had booked the flight before the verdict in the hope she would be able to attend a wedding in Mexico. Holmes canceled the ticket, “but it is difficult to know with certainty what Defendant would have done had the government not intervened,” the prosecutors wrote.

The filing was in response to a motion made by Holmes, 38, to loosen restrictions placed on her region of travel. To do so, Holmes has to prove that she is not a flight risk, a requirement prosecutors say she failed to meet.

In November last year, Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after her Jan. 3, 2022, conviction on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She was given a self-surrender date of April 27 this year after the court found out she was pregnant with her second child.

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This story was originally published in the Washington Post, but I don't have a subscription to WP.

It's good to know that the feds were watching her and considered her a potential flight risk.