Elizabeth Holmes' Husband Billy Evans: The Trial, Prison & Nathan Fielder’s Documentary

Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 135 months (11¼ years) after convictions for defrauding three investors and conspiracy; Evans says the loss amount and treatment of the case as involving 10 or more victims helped raise the sentence from roughly 4½ or 5 years. Evans also said the judge directed the trial team to let the case play out in court, and he believed Holmes made a mistake by not telling her story publicly.

Evans said the government presented four patient cases alleging inaccurate results, but Holmes was acquitted on those counts; he also noted that Theranos ran about 12.5 million patient tests over 18 months. He cautioned that what counts as acceptable diagnostic-test accuracy varies, citing 90% as good for some tests and 70% for others.

Evans described two mechanisms that could affect Holmes’s time in custody: a one-year reduction after sentencing guidelines changed and First Step Act credits of 16 days for every 30 days of qualifying programming. At the time of the interview, he said the expectation was that she could reach a halfway house in the second quarter of the following year.