John Carreyrou
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NY Times reporter and bestselling author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Ex- @WSJ . Send story tips to john.carreyrou @nytimes .com
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Elizabeth Holmes just got sentenced to 135 months in prison (11.25 years)
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So... I’ve got some news... In late August, the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes will begin and I’ll be there to cover it... with a new podcast, Bad Blood: The Final Chapter.
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This is a terrible look for
@WSJ
. Let’s see how it feels when another news organization front runs a sensitive story it’s working on with a preemptive comment from the story subject.
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Sunny Bałwani just got sentenced to 155 months in prison (12 years and 11 months).
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Sunny Balwani was just found guilty on 12 out of 12 counts.
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Then again, this is the same editorial page that was carrying water for Elizabeth Holmes while I was reporting the truth for the news pages.
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Journalistic high-mindedness from
@benyt
, the guy who pubbed the Trump dossier without fact-checking a shred of it and who later refused to retract the Trump-instructed-Cohen-to-lie-to-Congress story. Rich with irony and quite brazen.
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The 11 years and 3 months will be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
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Members of the Elizabeth Holmes jury: would you please contact me via DM or by emailing me at john.carreyrou
@gmail
.com?
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Excited to join the
@nytimes
and its great staff of reporters and editors.
Big personnel news:
@JohnCarreyrou
is joining
@nytimes
's Business Investigations team. We are thrilled to have him!
Internal announcement >>
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"First they say you're crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden, you change the world."
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If you liked Bad Blood, I think you’ll want to see the
@alexgibneyfilm
documentary on
@HBO
. Here’s the trailer.
“She was going to herald a revolution in medical treatment in this country.”
From Academy Award-winning director
@alexgibneyfilm
,
#TheInventor
: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley premieres March 18 at 9PM on
@HBO
.
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Elizabeth Holmes’s own aunt, who had invested in Theranos, provided a victim impact statement. She wants her niece to do real time.
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Tyler Shultz’s father gave an impromptu speech when the judge asked whether any victims wanted to speak. It was emotional. Holmes spoke too. She cried.
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Not surprised… Clearly the plan was to travel under a fake passport since her real one was confiscated in 2018 as part of the original bail terms.
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My book about the Theranos scandal, "BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup," is now on sale and available for order here:
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Judge Cousins granted my motion. I’m allowed back in the courtroom to cover Elizabeth Holmes’s trial.
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The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied Elizabeth Holmes's last-ditch motion to remain free pending her appeal, and Judge Davila separately ruled that Holmes and Balwani are on the hook for $452 million in restitution.
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So, I've been fielding queries from reporters asking me to confirm that former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, who is currently testifying at Elizabeth Holmes's trial, was my source. I can now confirm it. Alan Beam = Adam Rosendorff.
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Bad Blood has gone platinum. Thanks everyone for buying and reading!
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An Aug. 4, 2020, trial date is set for biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and her ex boyfriend Sunny Balwani
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I'm about to press "send" on a 36-page afterword to Bad Blood. The new edition of the book, complete with this new afterword, will be out soon.
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There will be a hearing at a later date about restitution.
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Another Theranos dirty trick: to pull the fire alarm in a Walgreens store when a reporter for NPR got too nosy. You can’t make this up.
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Bad Blood, the final final chapter
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It’s Elizabeth Holmes sentencing day… A lot of press already at the courthouse…
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U.S. files criminal charges against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and No. 2 Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani
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Here's a sneak peak at the just-finalized cover of my book on the Theranos saga. Word is my publisher,
@AAKnopf
, may move up its publication.
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A smart take on virus testing by one of my Theranos sources. You may have heard of him: his first name is Tyler...
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Judge Davila made clear that future deterrence was a big part of his rationale for the sentence. He called the Theranos fraud “a cautionary tale” for Silicon Valley.
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I'll add this: Adam was my first and most important source. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to break the Theranos story. Hats off to his courage and integrity. He's one of the real heroes of this story.
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So the whistleblower (and WSJ source) Erika Cheung wasn't wrong to think she was being followed by private investigators hired by Theranos.
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The jury just retired to deliberate in the US v. Elizabeth Holmes.
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What’s that expression again about the messenger?
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The government is asking Judge Davila to sentence Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison. Her attorneys are arguing for no time, or at worse 18 months.
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While we wait for Elizabeth Holmes’s trial, I highly recommend Tyler Shultz’s first-person account of his experience as a whistleblower. It’s brimming with new details even I didn’t know. Check it out! You won’t regret it.
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Tyler Shultz, grandson of Theranos director and former Secretary of State George Shultz, goes on the record.
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Just learned of a priceless anecdote (so too late to include it in the book): At a company party, Theranos employees played a video game modeled after Atari's Space Invaders: The gun was the miniLab, the bullets the nanotainers and the invader being shot at: Yours Truly!
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The parents of Tyler Shultz also provided a victim impact statement. It says Holmes took a « wrecking ball » to their family. « The most heart breaking of all is to hear your son describe that he contemplated suicide because he felt abandoned, isolated, threatened and hopeless »
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Judge Davila mused out loud repeatedly about what had caused Holmes to commit fraud. “What it hubris? Was it intoxication with fame?”
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Fans of this saga will want to check out my book, “Bad Blood,” which Alfred A. Knopf will be publishing October 2nd.
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“This case is so troubling on so many levels,” Davila said. “Was there a loss of moral compass here?”
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The difference between SBF’s and Elizabeth Holmes’s treatment is striking. He was marched into court with ankle shackles today and will be under house arrest with a bracelet monitor. Holmes could move about as she pleased and was never cuffed.
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This also illustrates my earlier point about the difference in treatment between SBF and Holmes. He’s under house arrest with a bracelet monitor while she’s free as a bird post conviction and sentencing.
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Am I reading this right? Did Time magazine choose Bad Blood as its pick for best nonfiction book of the year?
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After Theranos and Weinstein, this seals David Boies’ legacy as a crooked lawyer. NY Bar: You paying attention? via
@NYTimes
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I’m 25th on line to see Holmes testify today and the line behind me goes on and on.
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I’m in the courtroom…
I’ll bet a nickel that Judge Davilla doesn’t allow
@JohnCarreyrou
in courtroom since he is on the witness list, which would be a shame, given that his reporting on this is the best I’ve seen.
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There will be a hearing at a later date to determine the amount of restitution Holmes will owe her victims.
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Business Insider got its hands on a video showing Theranos employees shooting at my head in their home-made version of Space Invaders. You can watch it here:
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As the holidays approach, may I make a subtle Xmas gift suggestion?
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The first story I ever read in
@WSJ
was Tony Horwitz’s exposé on the poultry plant he embedded himself in for several months. One of the best pieces I’ve read in the paper to this day.
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The 4 guilty counts are all investor counts. The investor conspiracy count and the counts relating to the hedge fund PFM, the ex Cravath attorney Mosley and the DeVos family.
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Unlike with Holmes, the patient counts stuck. That’s probably because Sunny was directly overseeing the Theranos clinical lab.
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In his ruling, Judge Cousins said I was “providing an important public service” with the podcast. This is a win for the press.
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Holmes doesn’t have to report to prison until April. She will have given birth in the meantime.
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Proud to have won the Friends of Pathology Award for my Theranos coverage. Means more than any journalism award!
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Fascinating: The deterioration of his speech suggests Trump could be in the early stages of dementia
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In fact, I can’t think of two more damaging instances of what
@benyt
calls “resistance journalism” than those two
@BuzzFeedNews
screw-ups, which happened on his watch.
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The final episode of Bad Blood: The Final Chapter…
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As we predicted in Episode 1 of the podcast: Holmes is going to use the Svengali defense and try to shift all the blame to Sunny by alleging that he held her in his psychological grip.
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So I’m no longer to blame, Sunny is?
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So, as we waited quietly to enter the courtroom, Tyler Shultz’s parents stood right in front of me, the Holmes clan was to my right and Balwani’s lawyer was right behind me…
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"The next year, when Mr. Carreyrou was investigating Theranos’s claims for The Journal, Ms. Holmes embraced Silicon Valley’s favorite form of deflection: Label anyone who asks hard questions a hater."
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The plot thickens... The defense says it may call me as a witness. (I'm not on the prosecution's witness list).
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We’ve got a cool episode of the podcast coming your way tomorrow. It contains never-before-heard footage of Holmes’s interviews with
@kenauletta
and my confrontation with David Boies and Heather King
@WSJ
. You’re gonna want to hear it!
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One of the hallmarks of Theranos was dirty tricks. Looks like that pattern is continuing at Holmes’s trial…
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That's a year and a half more than Holmes got, presumably to reflect the fact that he was convicted on more counts.
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Predictably, he came off as less sympathetic to the jury…
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A piece of evidence entered at trial today: the Theranos 1.0.
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“‘Of course it was fraud,’ Mr. Murdoch said in an email after the sentencing.”
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And so it begins... The first two episodes of Bad Blood: The Final Chapter are out: . Enjoy!
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Balwani will be in prison before Holmes. He has to report to the Bureau of Prisons on March 15, six weeks before Holmes.
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No verdict yet in the Holmes trial but there was a mysterious 23-minute meeting yesterday morning between the judge and the parties. When we inquired about getting a transcript, we were told it was sealed.
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Elizabeth Holmes arriving at the courthouse for her trial.
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In a few hours, episode 4 of Bad Blood: The Final Chapter drops and this is one you’re going to want to listen to…
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Elizabeth Holmes's criminal defense has apparently cost more than $30 million. That's what she owes her lawyers, according to the probation officers' pre-sentencing report.
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Elizabeth Holmes can't pay her lawyers. Attorneys from the firm Cooley argue in a court filing that you can’t get blood from a stone.
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That should cut against the letters from friends and family that make Holmes sound like Mother Theresa…
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No fewer than 9 members of Holmes’s $30 million defense team are on hand.
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The jury asks if it can re-listen to the tape of the call Holmes held with investors in December 2013. The call will be replayed for the jury in the courtroom.
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Just as I suspected, the forged logos on the pharma reports were a big part of Holmes's undoing.
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When you find out from the final jury questionnaire that you may be called as a witness in Elizabeth Holmes's trial...
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“Why in the world would a lab develop a test that wasn’t safe and accurate?” Answer: because it is an enormous market.
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No verdict today in US v Elizabeth Holmes. Jurors deliberated all day and just left the courthouse.
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I missed this gem: In his restitution ruling, Davila determined that Holmes and Balwani should repay Murdoch $125 million. That's how much he'd invested in Theranos...
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The government also wants Holmes to pay $804 million in restitution to the victims of her fraud.
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The first two episodes will drop on Aug. 26, a few days before jury selection begins... Here’s the trailer.
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