In fact, her co-founder, a man, is facing the same criminal charges as she is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balwani#Criminal_charge...
The indictment names them as co-defendants:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/page/file/1135066/download
i started to read this article but couldn't finish -- i just thought it was outlandish.
i'm been beating back my inner male chauvinist for decades -- which makes me pretty confident that playing the feminist card here is bullshit.
is the question answered on who or how many people were harmed or killed by Theranos?
if it's 'nobody' or 'not many' and truly 'not much harm', then i guess i don't care -- let her skate like the men would.
but if she and her co-conspirators ended up harming or killing people -- jail.
i do wonder if there is too strong of a cult of killing in the Valley.
like, anybody can be a criminal -- but how bad ass are you, really?
kind of like cheating in nascar or baseball -- the one-upsmanship -- some significant percentage of the fans _want_ you to cheat, and everybody in the game knows 100% you're cheating, in part because they're cheating, too (game respect game), but how far are you really willing to go to achieve fame and fortune and gain the respect of cheaters everywhere? are you willing to potentially kill people?
you run a monopoly? tired.
you built a real estate bubble off of one investor with way too much money and a bunch of lazy follow-up money? eh. nice, but did anybody but a few worker bees get 'harmed'?
you broke covid protocols and got some people killed? getting warmer.
oh - _you_ managed to sway an election, dial up the hatred in a few places, and get more than a few people killed in some riots. impressive, but you were really just stoking the flames a bit, right?
whoa -- you _faked_ cancer screening blood tests?? holy shit. are you still taking investments??
Her co-defendant, a man, is also facing trial (in January 2022). See my previous reply to the parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561842