Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Four Charges of Fraud

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10. I have a small issue with this verdict

Don’t get me wrong: Ms. Holmes needs to be folding sheets in a prison laundry for a really long time, and she’s certain to get her chance.

The issue is the crime she committed, swindling the rich, seems to be the only economic crime they ever want to prosecute. If you set up a megachurch and swindle your parishioners, an MLM and screw your “distributors” out of every cent they have, or a fake university you’re seen as a great person. My beautician has a whole room full of Mary Kay she can barely give away because no one wants to pay department store prices for drugstore-quality makeup. There are thousands of men whose garages are full of overpriced Amsoil - it’s no better than Mobil 1 but it’s six dollars a quart more expensive. And we won’t even mention Amway, where you get in trouble for trying to sell the shit.

True story: one of my classmates in spy school was an Amway distributor before he enlisted. The reason he got into Amway was he found out just how good their whole house water filtration system is - this is no shit, their water filter is better than anything else on the market. So, instead of doing the whole “down line” thing Amway wants you to do, he set up a business selling, installing and servicing that water filter. Got a plumbing license and everything, and was making enough to support his family. Amway found out what he was doing and cut off his supply of water filters.

Elizabeth Holmes is going where she needs to. The DeVos family and Joel Osteen are still walking the streets. What is wrong with this picture?