Elizabeth Holmes offers delivery to second youngster whereas searching for to increase freedom

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has given delivery to a second youngster as she seeks to delay her impending imprisonment for felony fraud, in response to a courtroom submitting this week.

Holmes, 39, had a primary youngster — a son — in July 2021, as she awaited trial on fees of defrauding buyers and sufferers in connection together with her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup.

Between her conviction in January 2022 for defrauding buyers out of greater than $144 million, and her sentencing 10 months later to greater than 11 years in jail, Holmes grew to become pregnant once more, in response to a courtroom submitting. Decide Edward Davila, in passing sentence, delayed her incarceration till April 27, with authorized specialists saying he seemingly imposed the delay so Holmes may give delivery earlier than imprisonment. Holmes has appealed her conviction and sentence.

Holmes based Theranos in 2003 as a Stanford College dropout. Her claims that her expertise may conduct a full vary of exams utilizing just some drops of blood from a finger-stick helped drive its valuation as excessive as $9 billion, earlier than a sequence of Wall Street Journal exposés led to federal investigations, prison fees and the demise of the startup in 2018. She was acquitted on fees of defrauding sufferers who paid for Theranos blood exams.

The courtroom file doesn’t reveal when Holmes delivered her second youngster. She appeared pregnant at an October courtroom listening to in U.S. District Courtroom in San Jose, and her fiancé Billy Evans — the daddy of Holmes’ first youngster — confirmed her being pregnant in a November courtroom submitting. Her authorized workforce in a courtroom submitting Thursday mentioned she now has “two younger youngsters.”

The submitting got here amid a back-and-forth struggle between Holmes’ authorized workforce and prosecutors that adopted her movement in December asking Davila to increase her freedom till her attraction is completed, a course of that might take a yr or extra. Davila has really useful that Holmes be despatched to a minimum-security girls’s jail camp in Texas, however federal jail officers will determine the place she serves time. Final month, prosecutors argued that Holmes shouldn’t stay free after April 27. They accused her of posing a flight threat and claimed she had tried to flee the nation on a one-way ticket to Mexico after her conviction.

Holmes solely canceled the journey after a prosecutor contacted her legal professionals concerning the ticket, the prosecution alleged. Holmes’ companion Billy Evans, prosecutors claimed, flew to Mexico, not returning for practically six weeks, after which from South Africa.

Holmes’ legal professionals fired again, arguing that the prosecution had “recklessly and incorrectly” alleged she sought to flee accountability. Her authorized workforce claimed in a courtroom submitting that earlier than Holmes was convicted, she had hoped to be acquitted, and wished to attend the marriage of shut associates in Mexico in late January 2022. “As soon as the decision was issued, Ms. Holmes didn’t intend to make the journey,” her legal professionals claimed. Evans, who described himself for the primary time as Holmes’ “fiancé” in a declaration included with the submitting, had returned to the U.S. by means of Tijuana 4 days after he flew to Mexico, earlier than flying to South Africa three weeks in a while a two-week journey, in response to Holmes’ legal professionals.

Holmes’ legal professionals additionally questioned why prosecutors waited till December to make their declare regardless of figuring out concerning the Mexico reserving for a yr, and didn’t point out it when Davila was making selections about whether or not Holmes may stay free.