{"id":493634,"date":"2022-02-01T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232686"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:52:46","slug":"theranos-verdict-in-the-u-s-it-is-fine-to-lie-to-consumers-but-not-to-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/01\/theranos-verdict-in-the-u-s-it-is-fine-to-lie-to-consumers-but-not-to-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The verdict on Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was tried for fraud in a U.S. court, was guilty. Theranos was a company set up by Holmes and her former partner Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani and had promised to revolutionize blood testing. Their advanced biotech equipment\u2014they claimed\u2014would provide results for a whole battery of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/theranos-verdict-in-the-u-s-it-is-fine-to-lie-to-consumers-but-not-to-investors\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/theranos-verdict-in-the-u-s-it-is-fine-to-lie-to-consumers-but-not-to-investors\/\">Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/01\/theranos-verdict-in-the-u-s-it-is-fine-to-lie-to-consumers-but-not-to-investors\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verdict on Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was tried for fraud in a U.S. court, was guilty. Theranos was a company set up by Holmes and her former partner Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani and had promised to revolutionize blood testing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495080,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493634\/revisions\/495080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}