Elizabeth Holmes Fires Back at Claim She Tried to Flee

Attorneys for Elizabeth Holmes furiously denied prosecutors’ recent claim that the Theranos founder attempted to “flee the country” after she was convicted on four fraud charges last year.

In a court filing on Monday, the defense lawyers asked the court to strike inaccuracies from the record, including the “baseless” allegation that she tried to hightail it to Mexico on a one-way ticket. Prosecutors “recklessly and incorrectly accuse Ms. Holmes and her partner [Billy Evans] of attempted flight and present incomplete and provably inaccurate statements of fact in support of that accusation,” the filing said. The government had raised the issue while challenging Holmes’ request to stay out of prison pending her appeal.

The truth of the matter, Holmes’ lawyers wrote, was that Evans purchased the tickets in December 2021, “before the verdict,” and in the hopes that Holmes would soon be acquitted. When that didn’t happen, he failed to quickly cancel the reservation, but Holmes’ attorneys argued that “there was no way for her to go” anyway since she didn’t have access to her passport (which had expired) and did not seek court approval to travel abroad.

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