Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? Why Is Theranos CEO Jailed For 11 Years? 

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Holmes is convicted of defrauding investors with her Silicon Valley startup firm Theranos.

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She was convicted on four felony fraud counts in January for duping investors over 15 years.

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She had promised the investors that the firm had developed a revolutionary medical device.

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Holmes' company claimed to make a compact device that could scan hundreds of diseases with just a few drops of blood.

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As per her prosecutors, Holmes knew her device was not producing reliable results, yet induced dozens of investors to contribute nearly 1 billion dollars.

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Holmes rose to Silicon Valley fame after founding Theranos in 2003 at a young age of 19.

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Holmes, who is pregnant, gets a time to surrender herself until April next year.

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