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Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show.
The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the US Bureau of Prisons website.
Holmes’s sentence was reduced by more than four months, as her previous release date was set for 29 December 2032.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Holmes’s amended sentence to the Guardian but said he could not comment further due to “privacy, safety and security reasons” for inmates.
This is the second time that Holmes has had her sentence shortened. In July, was reduced by two years.
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
What’s also a bit tragic about all of this is that she chose to have kids right before going to prison. So now her children have to essentially spend their formative years without their mother in their life, other than the prison phone calls and visitation.
Maybe there’s a silver lining. There is a chance they’ll grow into better people than she did
Bet someone told her that new moms receive a reduced prison sentence before she decided to take kids.
The timing combined with her weird sociopathic nature make it all but a certainty that her decision to have kids was entirely driven by the possibility of a reduced sentence.
I mean, I’d rather be alive than not. I would assume that applies to them as well.
She literally had them specifically to get pity and a shorter sentence. If they were never born, I don’t think they would be sad about not being alive.
In that case, they might be better off not being around her.
You’re not wrong, but they are still growing up without a mom. It’s sad.
If you weren’t alive, you wouldn’t know it.
Her children are going to know what a narcissist she is and how she was absent for their childhoods. They’re also going to have the Internet to know exactly what she did, and they’re going to be able to learn that their existence is only because she wanted leniency from the court. She didn’t want kids; she wanted leverage.
I think I’d have been okay without all this.
She was a terrible boss, can’t imagine she’ll be a good mom.
What an odd take.