Elizabeth Holmes is serving an 11-year prison sentence at a minimum security prison in Texas after conviction on four counts of fraud in 2022. Holmes built Theranos around a device called Edison that she said could detect many illnesses from a few pinpricks of blood; the device did not work and produced misdiagnoses that harmed patients. Theranos attracted billions in funding from investors like Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family, with high-profile board members including Henry Kissinger. The company collapsed, Holmes failed in a recent appeal, and she surfaced on X for the first time since 2015, sharing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote about justice.
As a quick recap, Holmes claimed that her company had invented a medical testing device, called Edison, that could detect a wide range of illnesses - diabetes, cancers, and more - with just a few pinpricks of blood. These claims were nothing short of fantastical, according to experts, and absolutely not based in reality: the Edison machine didn't actually work, and wrought havoc in the lives of patients who received misdiagnoses.
Even so, Theranos raked in billions of dollars in funding, drawing investments from the likes of Fox News patriarch Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family; high-profile figures including Henry Kissinger sat on the firm's board. After a long period of drama, the company fell apart, and Holmes was accused in court of swindling investors while lying about the tech's prowess.
And yet! On Tuesday, Holmes took to X-formerly-Twitter for the first time since 2015 - the year Theranos, and her life, unraveled in public view - to share a quote about, uh, justice, from the legendary Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The convicted scammer included a pullout from the quote in the image's caption, writing: "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
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