Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder set to start a jail sentence for fraud later this 12 months, made plans to “flee the rustic” after her conviction closing 12 months, prosecutors published Thursday.
The allegation is available in a court docket submitting opposing Holmes’ request to not report back to jail whilst she appeals her case. In it, prosecutors say Holmes booked a one-way price ticket to Mexico departing closing January. Alternatively, she didn’t cancel the shuttle, which used to be set to leave a number of weeks after she used to be discovered to blame on 4 counts of fraud, till after prosecutors faced her protection staff, the submitting states.
It’s “tricky to understand with sure bet what [Holmes] would have finished had the federal government no longer intervened,” prosecutors stated, however given her loss of regret over her crimes working a fraudulent blood-testing corporate and her present way of life residing on a pricey property, it’s obvious she “has each the manner and the reason to escape.”
Consistent with an e-mail incorporated in Thursday’s submitting, Holmes’ attorney defined to prosecutors that the Mexico shuttle used to be booked earlier than the decision, that she didn’t plan to take the shuttle, and she or he hadn’t canceled it on account of “the entirety that has been occurring” with the trial. Alternatively, there used to be no cause of why no go back flight were booked.
Holmes, set to start her Eleven-plus-year jail sentence in April, is these days prohibited from leaving Northern California ― regardless that she has petitioned the court docket to ease her go back and forth restrictions. Her April give up date, which the court docket agreed to as a result of she’s these days pregnant, is already “beneficiant,” prosecutors stated.
“There don’t seem to be two programs of justice — one for the rich and one for the deficient — there may be one felony justice gadget on this nation,” prosecutors wrote.
“And underneath that gadget, the time has come for Elizabeth Holmes to respond to for her crimes dedicated just about a decade in the past.”