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Inside the prison where Elizabeth Holmes will spend the next 11 years

Lekan Oyekanmi and Michael Liedtke

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Bryan, Texas | Disgraced Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes reported to a federal prison for the start of her 11-year sentence for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.

Holmes, 39, was convicted of fraud last year for duping investors – including News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison – who contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in the failed Silicon Valley start-up.

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