Elizabeth Holmes faces sentencing today

Elizabeth Holmes faces sentencing today on her judgment day in court for defrauding Theranos investors.

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Theranos pioneer Elizabeth Holmes, whose fabulous rise and fall made her an object of interest in Silicon Valley.

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She is supposed to be sentenced on Friday in a California federal court for defrauding investors in her now-dead blood-testing startup.

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A jury in San Jose sentenced Holmes, 38, on three counts of investor misrepresentation and one including of conspiracy in January.

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Investigators, who are looking for a 15-year jail sentence, referred to Holmes' extortion as "among the most significant middle-class offenses Silicon Valley.

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Yet, Holmes' lawyers have asked that she get a more indulgent sentence of a year and a half of home imprisonment.

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Prosecutors said Holmes distorted Theranos' by guaranteeing that its scaled-down blood testing machine had the option to run a variety of tests.

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The organization subtly depended on customary machines from different organizations to run patients' tests, investigators said.

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Forbes named Holmes the world's most youngest female independent billionaire in 2014 when she was 30 and her stake in Theranos was valued at $4.5 billion.

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Theranos collapsed after a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal in 2015 scrutinized its technology.

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