Elizabeth Holmes Wins Judge’s Backing in Getting FDA Documents Faster
- Theranos founder sought help cutting through ‘regulatory haze’
- Holmes, Balwani will see hard copies of notes from FBI agents
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Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes wants millions of documents from regulators to formulate her defense against criminal fraud charges. On Wednesday she got some help from a federal judge cutting through what her lawyer has called the “regulatory haze” in her way.
Holmes and her co-defendant, former Theranos president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, won an order requiring regulators to move quickly to turn over troves of documents they say are at the core of their defense. Less than three weeks ago they appeared before U.S. District Judge Edward Davila making the same request, arguing time is of the essence for a trial that’s set to start a year from now.