Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s prison sentence has been slashed by two years, in line with updated Bureau of Prisons records
In keeping with Holmes’ inmate information on the Bureau of Prisons’ website, the 39-year-old mother of two might be released on Dec. 29, 2032 — nine years, six months and 29 days after she checked into Federal Prison Camp Bryan on May 30.
Holmes, now often called federal inmate 24965-111, was initially sentenced to 11 years and three months within the minimum-security, women-only Texas prison.
A Bureau of Prison spokesperson wouldn’t comment on the specifics of Holmes’ earlier-than-expected release.
“For privacy, safety and security reasons, our office doesn’t comment on the conditions of confinement for any inmate, including release planning or release plans,” the rep told The Post on Monday.
The federal agency noted that projected release dates can change based on an inmate’s good conduct, completion of substance abuse programs or the time credits they earned for completing programs and productive activities.
Holmes was convicted on 4 counts of wire fraud for swindling doctors and patients to make use of her company’s blood-testing services while knowing that Theranos was incapable of manufacturing accurate results, in line with the indictment.
She was also accused of defrauding investors of greater than $700 million with the made-up claims.
Holmes was ordered — along together with her ex-lover and former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani — to pay $452 million in restitution to the investors who bought into their made-up claims.
Theranos investor and media mogul Rupert Murdoch — chairman of News Corp., the publisher of The Post — is owed $175 million of those funds, while lesser amounts might be distributed to 13 other fraud victims, including $40 million to Walgreens and $14.5 million to Safeway.
Holmes is being held jointly answerable for the lump sum, as Balwani is already in prison after being convicted on a broader range of felonies in a separate trial.
Holmes must chock up $250 a month in restitution payments to victims, though her lawyers insisted before a judge that her “limited financial resources” will make it difficult for her to make the monthly installments.
US District Judge Edward Davila — who presided over each Holmes and Balwani’s trials — amended Holmes’ court filing regarding the restitution payment schedule, noting that she won’t be required to make the monthly payment until after she’s served her now-nine-year sentence.
Since surrendering to FPC Bryan in late May, an emotional Holmes has been spotted on campus in uniform — khaki sweatpants and a brown T-shirt — and crying throughout a seven-hour reunion last month together with her family.
An emotional Holmes was pictured clinging to the finger of her husband, William Evans — prolonged physical contact that appeared to violate the prison’s policy.
Sources told the Every day Mail that Holmes was “visibly shaken” and “crying during much of the visit” after having spent her early days at FPC Bryan in isolation.
It’s unclear if Holmes continues to be in isolation, though many inmates on the minimum-security prison reportedly share a four-person bunk room — a far cry from the $9 million San Diego mansion Holmes lived in together with her husband and two young children.
Inmates are kept on a good schedule. They’re woken up at 6 a.m. for food service duties or factory jobs, earning between 12 cents and $1.15 per hour.
Last month, Lynn Espejo, who spent nearly two years at Bryan Federal Prison Camp from 2018 until early 2020, made a shocking allegation to The Post about prison life at FPC.
Espejo said that male guards checked on inmates within the showers — and claimed a few of them were “having sex with women” inmates.
“You’re within the shower and the guard [could] are available in there to see what you’re as much as,” Espejo told The Post.
Before the Theranos house of cards got here tumbling down, Holmes had a net value of $4.5 billion at just 30 years old, in line with Forbes. As of 2023, that figure has fallen to $0.