Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home—a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.
The federal judge who sentenced Holmes, 39, in November recommended that she be incarcerated in a women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, located about 100 miles from Houston, where she grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Once she enters prison, Holmes will be leaving behind two young children—a son born in July 2021 a few weeks before the start of her trial, and a 3-month old daughter who was conceived after a jury convicted her on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022….