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The FDA and CMS files, plus later SEC charges in March 2018, moved the story from a magazine dispute into the enforcement docket. The company dissolved in 2018 as the criminal case was prepared. Holmes’s trial (2021–2022) focused on what investors were told about technology, pharmaceutical-company validation, and the Department of Defense.
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Theranos · paras 1
Carreyrou’s October 2015 article, followed by more Journal reporting, forced the company into a defensive public posture. CMS inspected the Newark, California laboratory and in 2016 imposed sanctions, including a ban on Holmes’s operating labs for a period.
Theranos · paras 2
The FDA and CMS files, plus later SEC charges in March 2018, moved the story from a magazine dispute into the enforcement docket. The company dissolved in 2018 as the criminal case was prepared. Holmes’s trial (2021–2022) focused on what investors were told about technology, pharmaceutical-company validation, and the Department of Defense.
Theranos · paras 2
Balwani was tried separately in 2022 and convicted on all counts he faced, including investor and patient-related fraud. The split outcomes are part of the public record and are often flattened in casual retellings. Theranos is not an unsolved scientific puzzle. Courts treated the investor representations as false.
Theranos · paras 2
The case is also not a general indictment of all finger-stick or point-of-care testing. Other devices are regulated and cleared on their own files. The encyclopedia entry is about this company’s claims and these dockets. The Journal’s 2015 series, CMS inspection files, the SEC complaint, and two federal criminal trials in San Jose are the primary sources.
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Balwani was tried separately in 2022 and convicted on all counts he faced, including investor and patient-related fraud. The split outcomes are part of the public record and are often flattened in casual retellings. Theranos is not an unsolved scientific puzzle. Courts treated the investor representations as false.
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The case is also not a general indictment of all finger-stick or point-of-care testing. Other devices are regulated and cleared on their own files. The encyclopedia entry is about this company’s claims and these dockets. The Journal’s 2015 series, CMS inspection files, the SEC complaint, and two federal criminal trials in San Jose are the primary sources.
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