Since I think the market is going to be annoying until the Quad OpEx finishes tomorrow, I’ll do a post about something un-chart-related.
Here in the Bay Area, at long last the Sunny Balwani trial is finally starting. Sunny is, of course, the co-conspirator with the whole Theranos mess. Now that his former decades-younger girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of multiple felonies (and, like all wrongdoers, is whiling away her days on a huge estate enjoying time with her family), the court is ready to deal with Mr. Balwani.
What prompted this post is the following………….
See, they’re trying to pick out a jury made up of people who have no opinion about Theranos, which must be very hard. They might be better off getting prospective jurors from Madagascar or some other place where there hasn’t been eighty movies made about the corporate crimes committed.
Yet they’re doing their best, and after they figure they had a jury seated, they discovered that one of the jurors “accidentally” watched three episodes of The Dropout (the 8-part mini-series about Theranos) at which time he finally used his reasoning skills to deduce that what he was watching had something to do with Theranos. The fellow, incidentally, works as a probation officer.
Setting aside the fact that it’s disturbing to think something holding a job with any kind of responsibility could possibly be that stupid, I must marvel at:
- How anyone can “accidentally” watch hours of television;
- Worse, how anyone doing so could not realize what, ya know, the TOPIC of what they’re watching is.
If the other eleven members are anything like this lunkhead, maybe Sunny will be the luckiest man alive and be acquitted with the apologies of the court.
