{"id":378919,"date":"2021-12-09T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elizabeth-holmes-blasts-ex-sunny-balwani-in-closing-testimony\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:58:21","slug":"elizabeth-holmes-blasts-ex-sunny-balwani-in-closing-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elizabeth-holmes-blasts-ex-sunny-balwani-in-closing-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elizabeth Holmes blasts ex Sunny Balwani in closing testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Elizabeth Holmes blasts ex Sunny Balwani in closing testimony<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes closed the last day of testimony in her criminal fraud trial by once again bashing her ex-boyfriend and former No. 2 executive, alleging that his emotional abuse crimped her ability to run the company. <\/p>\n<p>The former CEO, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, blamed Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani for much of the deception that occurred at Theranos, even though she acknowledged that she was the ultimate decision maker. <\/p>\n<p>Holmes, 37, took the stand before the defense rested Wednesday, fielding questions from her lawyer Kevin Downey and portraying Balwani as a Svengali who took advantage of her youth and inexperience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho was the most important adviser to you?\u201d asked Downey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunny was,\u201d replied Holmes, who has spent seven days testifying\u00a0in her own defense, denying\u00a0that she swindled patients\u00a0and investors out of millions while knowingly producing a faulty testing device to\u00a0enrich herself.  <\/p>\n<p>Holmes also told the jury that she \u201ctried not to ignite\u201d Balwani, who served as president and chief operating officer of Theranos, in their correspondence, which was often by text message.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Courtroom sketch of Elizabeth Holmes holding a handkerchief to her mouth and nose while testifying \" class=\"wp-image-20430700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes, under cross-examination by prosecutor Robert Leach, denied she swindled patients and investors out of millions of dollars.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSunny would often blow off steam or vent through text,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cI was trying to be supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Downey asked Holmes if Balwani criticized employees at Theranos \u201cas being incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did,\u201d Holmes said, noting that Balwani was also critical of her performance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Balwani-Holmes_01-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Ramesh &quot;Sunny&quot; Balwani\" class=\"wp-image-20431644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Balwani-Holmes_01-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Balwani-Holmes_01-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Balwani-Holmes_01-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/Balwani-Holmes_01-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes during her testimony blamed ex-boyfriend Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani for much of the deception that occurred at her biotech company Theranos.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Holmes, who was romantically involved with Balwani for more than a decade, said their breakup was \u201ca process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe showed up at the church I would go to at night and at the Dish, which is where I used to run around Stanford,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cThe places I would go outside work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A key part of Holmes\u2019 defense has been shifting blame to Balwani, 56, who Holmes claims abused her physically, emotionally and sexually. Balwani has denied those allegations. He is being tried separately next year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Ramesh Balwani \" class=\"wp-image-20430835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ramesh Balwani was portrayed by Elizabeth Holmes as a Svengali who took advantage of her youth and inexperience. Balwani has denied Holmes\u2019 allegations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in her testimony, Holmes told the jury that being raped while a student at Stanford University pushed her to drop out of school and throw herself into building the company. She testified that when she later\u00a0started dating Balwani, \u201che said I was safe now that I had met him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But, she went on, Balwani allegedly perpetuated a cycle of abuse in which he controlled all aspects of her life, including the way she ran Theranos.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes \u2014 nearly 20 years younger than Balwani\u00a0\u2014 testified that Balwani coached her on how to behave and speak, and pushed her to adopt a rigorous daily schedule as well as a strict diet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Elizabeth Holmes, center, enters the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her partner, Billy Evans, right, and her mother, Noel Holmes, in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Looking on at far right is John Carreyrou, the former Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the October 2015 story that exposed flaws in Theranos' blood-testing technology. \" class=\"wp-image-20430903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes arriving for court on Dec. 7, 2021. The disgraced founder and CEO of Theranos spent seven days testifying in her own defense on charges she defrauded investors and patients by promoting a failed blood-testing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that I didn\u2019t know what I was doing in business, that my convictions were wrong, that he was astonished at my mediocrity and if I followed my instincts, I was going to fail,\u201d Holmes claimed.<\/p>\n<p>She added that he said that \u201cwho I was was never going to be a person who would succeed in life or in business, so I needed to kill that person and become a new Elizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would force me to have sex with him when I didn\u2019t want to because he would say that he wanted me to know he still loved me,\u201d Holmes added, sobbing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Elizabeth Holmes arriving at federal court\" class=\"wp-image-20430973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes alleged Ramesh Balwani emotionally abused her, crimping her ability to run Theranos.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>After one incident in which Balwani allegedly forced her to have sex, Holmes wrote in a document recorded on her iPhone: \u201cDon\u2019t enjoy literally anything about it or who I am if I did it. Hurts so much. So so much. Can\u2019t focus on anything except why? Why hurting myself? Can\u2019t even move let alone do sit-ups or actually sit up. Lying swollen. Literally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balwani\u2019s grasp on Holmes was broken in 2016, shortly after the Wall Street Journal published an expose that raised questions about the claims made by Theranos about its blood testing devices. Holmes testified that a 2015 internal lab inspection that she read in 2016, which detailed the threat Theranos products posed to patients, was her wake-up call.<\/p>\n<p>Balwani left the company in 2016 after Holmes brought in outside advisers and lab directors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes (Center) walks with her mother Noel Holmes (Left) and her partner Billy Evans (Right) as they arrive for Elizabeth Holmes's trial at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 07, 2021 in San Jose, California. \" class=\"wp-image-20431058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/holmes-slams-balwani-theranos-trial5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes (center) faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the last moments of her testimony Wednesday, Holmes reiterated that she never intended to mislead investors, even though she admitted that they lost money under her reign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to change the impact the company could make for people and for health care,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cThere were people that were long-term investors and I wanted to talk about what this company could do a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Closing arguments in the trial are expected to begin Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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