Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been ordered to report to prison by the end of the month after losing a bid to appeal her fraud convictions while free.
US District Judge Edward Davila said in a ruling on Monday night that Holmes, who was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup, had failed to prove her appeal would lead to a reversal of her conviction or a new trial.
Although she was not found by the Court to be a flight risk, Davila said Holmes did not raise a “substantial question of law or fact” that is “likely to result in reversal or an order for a new trial of all counts.”
"Contrary to her suggestion that accuracy and reliability were central issues to her convictions, Ms Holmes' misrepresentations to Theranos investors involved more than just whether Theranos technology worked as promised," he said in the 11-page ruling.
Holmes, who founded Theranos in 2003, was convicted of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after she falsely claimed her company’s blood-testing machines could diagnose a range of health conditions with a single drop of blood.
She is scheduled to go to prison on April 27.
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