in any event, there can be no doubt that addressing infection problems in medicare and medicaid facilities is what he does. this is a mandate that goes into effect for health care workers who work at facilities that receive federal funding through medicaid and medicare, and that is why the supreme court is giving this a green light saying it s different than that other mandate, saying the other mandate, osha doesn t have the broad power as an agency to put this into effect. guys, a little bit of a split verdict, if you will, for the biden administration, but definitely a much bigger loss because they wanted this mandate with employers to go into effect of 80,000 workers. joan biskupic, 6-3 on both of these. where do you see the justice landed on this?
good morning. good morning to you. the split verdict is a big win for the government. it means that elizabeth holmes could spend years in federal prison. at the very end of the day yesterday, the jury convicted holmes on four counts of defrauding investors. they acquitted her on four counts of deceiving patients and deadlocked on three of the counts alleging that she lied to get millions of dollars to keep her floundering blood founding company afloat. she lied to investors about work with the military than ever existed. the jury saw investor reports strongly implying partnerships with pfizer which also is not true. she tried to blame others for the company s failure, but the jury did not buy it. there verdict sends a strong message to start-ups looking for funding. anybody out there trying to
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deadlocking on three of those charges. each guilty count carrying a maximum of 20 years in prison. i want to discuss now with harry litman, a former u.s. attorney. harry, good to see you. thanks for joining. thank you, don. this is a mixed verdict. she is convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud against specific investors. but you re saying it s ess essentially as severe as if she had got convicted on everything. how is that? that s basically right. first you re right. it is a split verdict. the jury essentially didn t believe the government had carried its burden when it comes to her bilking of patients. and they did believe it when it came to investors. but, yeah, it s a total knockout blow because it carries about the same sentence as if they had run the table because in fraud cases like this, the sentence is