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The Dropout

The Beginning of the End

The Dropout

ABC News

True Crime

4.625.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we hear from two Theranos lab directors -- one who never met Elizabeth or stepped foot into the company’s lab, another who ultimately voided more than 50,000 Theranos tests after a damning government inspection. And we hear from an irate investor who says Elizabeth Holmes cut off communication with him when he asked for basic information about the company. Plus, 10 weeks into the trial, with only 24 witnesses out of a possible 181 on the government’s initial list having taken the stand, we hear a surprising update from prosecutor Jeffrey Schenk: This week might be the prosecution’s last before it rests its case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Previously on The Dropout, we heard from a man with deep connections to many of the central players in Elizabeth's orbit

0:41.0

and learned that fake Pfizer memo wasn't the only document thereinose falsified.

0:46.0

The defense might have been able to wiggle their way out of one of the reports,

0:51.0

but now that there's two of them, that's a hard battle for them to contest.

0:55.0

This week, we hear from two Theranos lab directors, one who never met Elizabeth or set foot in the company's lab.

1:03.0

Very very strange. That was the only time I've ever come across that.

1:08.0

Another who ultimately voided over 50,000 Theranos tests after a damning government inspection.

1:16.0

And the government's most fired up witness yet, and I raid investor who says Elizabeth Holmes cut off communications

1:23.0

when he asked for basic information takes the stand.

1:26.0

Now, some way say he just lost a million dollars. I'm sure he's angry and no one would talk to him.

1:33.0

But we contrast that with almost all the other government witnesses who for a variety of reasons were very calm,

1:41.0

very composed on the witness stand, and really didn't seem to harbor that kind of anger that he's certainly showing.

1:58.0

From ABC Audio, this is the dropout of Elizabeth Holmes on trial.

2:03.0

I'm Rebecca Jarvis.

2:05.0

On episode 13, the beginning of the end.

2:12.0

Over the course of 10 weeks, we've heard from 24 of the 181 witnesses on the government's list.

2:19.0

Jers, journalists, the public, maybe even Elizabeth herself, anticipated the end was nowhere in sight.

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