Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked President Trump to commute her sentence after she was convicted of defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion, a notice on the Justice Department website showed. The Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney lists the status of her commutation request, which…
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump for early prison release after fraud conviction
Politics
January 21, 2026
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