Elizabeth Holmes Case Takes On More Drama Ahead of Sentencing

Then in August, Dr. Rosendorff visited Theranos’s former office in Palo Alto, Calif., as well as the first Walgreens store the company had worked with. Both, he found, were gone.

As a result, he “suddenly felt that a conversation with the defendant was the missing piece” to moving on with his life, his lawyers said in a filing. Dr. Rosendorff drove to Ms. Holmes’s residence in nearby Woodside, Calif. Mr. Evans answered, and told him to leave.

From there, the accounts differ. Ms. Holmes’s camp said that Dr. Rosendorff had expressed guilt over his role in the situation, and that he had said government prosecutors “made things sound worse than they were.” Ms. Holmes argued that the incident called Dr. Rosendorff’s testimony and the government’s entire case into question, which meant she deserved a new trial.

On Monday, Dr. Rosendorff returned to the stand. Judge Edward Davila, who oversaw Ms. Holmes’s trial, asked whether Dr. Rosendorff’s testimony at the trial was truthful and whether the government had faithfully represented the facts. He testified affirmatively.

Then Lance Wade, Ms. Holmes’s lawyer, grilled him. Why did Dr. Rosendorff want to visit Ms. Holmes? Had Dr. Rosendorff had a mental breakdown that impacted his testimony? Was the government trying to make everyone look bad? Was Dr. Rosendorff seeking to help Ms. Holmes?

Dr. Rosendorff responded by accusing Ms. Holmes’s lawyers of trying to paint him as a liar. He said he felt sympathy for Theranos employees who were affected by the scandal — but not for Ms. Holmes and her co-conspirator, Ramesh Balwani. He added that he felt bad that Ms. Holmes’s children would grow up without a mother if she went to prison.

Ms. Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud, with each carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/technology/elizabeth-holmes-case-adam-rosendorff.html