We are now about two months from her hearing date, and so… the AUSAs are, pursuant to statute, calling for letters, from defrauded victims — to help shape the sentencing, under the federal guidelines.
No surprise there, at all. I continue to think, even as a mother with what will be a toddler by sentencing date, she will face more than a decade, away. We shall see.
Her sentence will be now handed down on October 17, 2022. This, per Bloomberg:
…The US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco on Thursday issued a “call for information” from victims following the separate convictions of the former executives for their roles in the collapse of the company once valued at $9 billion. The federal judge in San Jose, California, who presided over the trials will use the information in determining their sentences, according to a statement from the office….
“The government has a duty pursuant to the Mandatory Restitution Act to attempt to ensure that crime victims are made whole for their out of pocket losses as a part of sentencing in a criminal matter,” said Adam Gasner, a criminal defense attorney not involved in the Theranos cases….
Indeed. So it goes — grinning; ever… grinning.