And look at this face:
Hollywood couldn’t write a better storyline or plot than the one involving Elizabeth Holmes. She looks like someone you know. She is an attractive, fit white woman that maybe idolized Steve Jobs a bit too much (they both wore turtle necks to death) that ended up as the youngest female billionaire in history.
She was on the cover of Forbes Magazine. She gave inspirational speeches at Pepperdine University, her mother was a Congressional staffer, and her father was a Vice President of Enron, an energy company that went belly up because of an accounting fraud scandal. And somehow when all was said and done, he never spent even a day behind bars. He was a VP of one of the most popular companies in the world, you mean to tell me he had no knowledge of or involvement in its scandal?
I was born at night, just not last night.
There is nothing about this lady’s background that would suggest that she had anything to fear. She grew up in privilege. People who grow up well connected know how to beat tickets, citations and records. If they’re pulled over for drinking and driving, the charges get dropped because their old man usually knows the police officer or sheriff and pleads for the future of his son or daughter. Because they almost always were on a fast track to Yale or Harvard, the culmination of the best education money could buy. Can’t have a record or jail getting in the way of such lofty dreams, right?
She thought she could get away with it because she has ALWAYS gotten away with it. The woman, after being tried and convicted, tried to talk the judge into delaying her 11 year sentence. That she thought she would even have the judge’s ear after all of this defrauding mess should tell you something. Holmes has been in prison for two months now and will probably be released 2 years early, so she will not even have to complete her full sentence, roughly 9 1/2 years of it.