SAN JOSE, Calif.—Closing arguments start Thursday in Elizabeth Holmes’s criminal-fraud trial, marking the ultimate alternative for prosecutors and protection attorneys to sway jurors to their aspect of the case.
Ms. Holmes, the founding father of now-defunct blood-testing startup Theranos Inc., is preventing 11 fees of conspiracy and fraud claiming that she lied to traders and sufferers in regards to the firm’s know-how. The 2018 indictment alleges that Ms. Holmes inflated income projections, lied about Theranos’s relationship with the navy and falsely touted the flexibility of Theranos gadgets to check for some 200 well being circumstances utilizing just some drops of blood from a finger prick.