Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex May Hold Her Ticket to Less Prison Time

Former Theranos president’s trial is wild card for founder’s sentence

Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” BalwaniPhotographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg
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Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has good reason to root against her former boyfriend when he takes his turn at trial.

And it has nothing to do with how she feels about the man she claims abused her for years. Rather, a guilty verdict for company ex-president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani might help Holmes get a break on a prison sentence that could easily be more than a decade.