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François d'Orcival: "When Silicon Valley becomes an incubator of scams"

2022-01-14T06:18:08.318Z


CHRONICLE – The Holmes affair is undoubtedly, after the Madoff scandal, one of the biggest scams of recent years.


She was the

“youngest billionaire on the planet”.

She became the author of the largest scam in Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth Holmes, who will be 38 on February 4, faces a sentence of 20 to 30 years in prison.

A movie script?

A true story.

His trial has just ended in court in San Jose, California, 30 kilometers from his company's headquarters.

The business begins in 2015. Daughter of a posh family, Elizabeth Holmes has reached the peak of her career in twelve years.

She covers the headlines,

Forbes, Fortune, Time;

through her company Theranos, she is listed as the 110th richest person in the United States ($4.5 billion)!

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On March 3, 2015, summarizing this list,

Paris Match

described “the empire” which employs 500 employees;

it will have brought together among its shareholders the most prominent Americans, admired by Bill Clinton to Joe Biden (the current president), via ministers from Reagan or Bush and Rupert Murdoch, the…

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Source: lefigaro

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