Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has good reason to root against her former boyfriend, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, when he takes his turn at trial.
A guilty verdict for the company’s ex-president, a man she claims abused her for years, might help her get a break on a prison sentence that could easily be more than a decade.
Holmes’s attempts to shift blame on Balwani for the blood-testing startup’s collapse failed to stop jurors from finding her guilty in January of defrauding investors. But she’ll get another chance to argue that he was a bad influence on her when U.S. District Judge Edward Davila — who’s overseeing Balwani’s trial after presiding over hers — hears arguments ahead of her sentencing in September.
