Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes demands prospective jurors are grilled with deeply intrusive list of 112 questions ahead of wire-fraud trial over botched blood testing machines
Lawyer for former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes submitted 45-page juror questionnaire that includes questions about social media habits
Attorneys for disgraced Holmes try to weed out prospective jurors who have read or heard inflammatory content about the case in blogs, podcasts, news
She doesn t want readers of 46 publications including the Wall Street Journal, DailyMail.com and the New Yorker to be allowed to hear her case
Holmes also wants to ask if any of the jurors have ever taken anti-anxiety drug Xanax
Theranos execs begged disgraced CEO Elizabeth Holmes to step down in the company s last days, but she refused because she saw herself as the company and did not think it could continue without her
One ex exec said: Anyone who knows Elizabeth knows she saw herself as the company and I don t think she could see the company continuing without her
They described her stepping down as CEO as a non-starter
The former executive said that her name was so wrapped up in a Silicon Valley success story that stepping down would have saved her freedom
Holmes and former Theranos President Ramesh Sunny Balwani have pleaded not guilty to charges they defrauded investors, doctors and patients