Ther­a­nos founder Eliz­a­beth Holmes found guilty on four counts of de­fraud­ing in­vestors

The Ther­a­nos saga has cap­ti­vat­ed the phar­ma world over the last two decades, from its found­ing to its sharp rise and even sharp­er de­cline. And late Mon­day, its founder and for­mer CEO Eliz­a­beth Holmes was found guilty on sev­er­al counts re­lat­ed to mis­lead­ing in­vestors, with each car­ry­ing a max­i­mum of up to 20 years in prison.

Ju­rors re­turned the ver­dict Mon­day evening, find­ing Holmes guilty on one count of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud against spe­cif­ic in­vestors, with sev­er­al news out­lets re­port­ing on the re­sult. Holmes was found not guilty on four counts re­lat­ed to de­fraud­ing pa­tients and ju­rors dead­locked on three counts of mis­lead­ing in­di­vid­ual in­vestors.

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