Elizabeth Holmes reportedly steps down at Theranos after criminal indictment
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/15/elizabeth-holmes-reportedly-steps-down-at-theranos-after-criminal-indictment/
Elizabeth Holmes has left her role as CEO of Theranos and has been charged with wire fraud, CNBC and others report. The company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was also indicted today by a grand jury.
These criminal charges are separate from the civil ones filed in March by the SEC and already settled. There are 11 charges; two are conspiracy to commit wire fraud (against investors, and against doctors and patients) and the remaining nine are actual wire fraud, with amounts ranging from the cost of a lab test to $100 million.