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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute prison sentence

By The Guardian  
   January 22, 2026

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked Donald Trump to commute her sentence after she was convicted of defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion, a notice on the DOJ website showed. The justice department's office of the pardon attorney lists the status of her commutation request, which was made last year, as pending. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Holmes, 37, founder of the collapsed blood-testing company Theranos, was convicted of four counts of defrauding investors and, in November 2022, was sentenced to serve more than 11 years in prison. 

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