Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes’s Pregnancy Announcement Delays Her Highly Anticipated Fraud Trial Adam Klasfeld
Wall Street Journal technology conference in Laguna Beach, California on Oct. 21, 2015.
Earlier this month, counsel for embattled Theranos founder
Elizabeth Holmesannounced their client is pregnant, spelling all but certain delay for her highly anticipated fraud trial. A federal judge made that postponement official on Wednesday, setting a new trial date agreed upon by prosecutors and defense attorneys: Aug. 31 this year.
“We of course wish Ms. Holmes the best wishes and we wish her event to be a happy one and a healthy one,” Judge
Edward J. Davila, from the Northern District of California, remarked during a Zoom conference on Wednesday morning.