This week, we hear from Erika Cheung, one of the whistleblowers who originally set Elizabeth’s downfall in motion and who says she was subjected to disturbing intimidation tactics as a result. Legal experts analyze the success of each side’s opening arguments. And a mysterious man named “Hanson” causes quite the stir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previously on the dropout Elizabeth Holmes on trial.
We heard opening statements from the prosecution and defense, both sides setting the stage for the course of this trial.
It's the old adage, you know, first impressions are everything.
This week, we hear from one of the whistleblowers who originally set Elizabeth's downfall in motion.
It really started to eat me up inside, and that's what led me to.
File the complaint and the intimidation tactics she says Theranos employed to try to secure her silence.
They had showed up to my work, and it scared my own coworkers.
They were curious, like, why has this guy just been sitting outside of our lab?
Plus, a mysterious man named Hansen causes quite the stir.
When we found out who he was, we just, we couldn't believe it.
From ABC audio, this is the dropout Elizabeth Holmes on trial.
Episode five, mystery Men.
As the ancient legal maxim famously goes, justice delayed is justice denied.
Whoever originally made the pronouncement, which dates back to the 17th century, clearly hadn't anticipated the rise of COVID Barely three weeks into the criminal trial of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Holmes, a juror number nine alerted the court he might have been exposed.
That meant the proceedings had to be postponed until he came back with two negative tests, a foreboding sign of things to come in the downtime, reporters began comparing notes.
As it turned out, many of us had met a strange figure who started lingering outside the courthouse during jury selection.
He was a balding man with rectangular framed glasses, wearing a blue quilted patagonia coat with khaki pants and a black surgical mask.
He was friendly, striking up conversations with a lot of reporters as we waited in line to go inside, including Good Morning America, Booker Miles Cohen.
I was thinking to myself, everybody else has kind of told me their publication, their name.