Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to only over 11 years in jail for defrauding buyers by falsely claiming her expertise might detect ailments from a drop of blood.

The sentencing of the previous Theranos CEO marks the top of the younger founder’s Silicon Valley saga—one through which she wooed buyers with empty guarantees and idealism and raked in a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars}. And it’s a case that would have an effect on how buyers consider new startups, consultants say. Many founders have used hyperbole to explain their visions and lift cash, however felony expenses of fraud are uncommon.

“She pushed the envelope a little too far,” says Anat Alon-Beck, a legislation professor at Case Western Reserve University. “You fake it ’til you make it, but it was too much ‘fake.’”

But the case isn’t totally over. Holmes’ former boyfriend and enterprise companion, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, has a sentencing scheduled for December 7. He was convicted on 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy towards Theranos buyers and sufferers. Holmes has additionally accused him of abusing her, however Balwani has denied these allegations.

Holmes sought funding for Theranos, which she dropped out of Stanford University to launch, by claiming her expertise would revolutionize the medical world, because it might use only a few drops of blood to scan for a whole lot of ailments. She turned the startup right into a $9 billion unicorn. But whistleblowers revealed Holmes had lied in regards to the capabilities of her invention. Instead of saving lives, it had been placing sufferers at severe danger of pretend outcomes.

Holmes confronted as much as 20 years in jail for her actions. In a memo that depicted Holmes as a compassionate little one who grew right into a naive, younger enterprise chief, her attorneys requested she serve 18 months of home arrest adopted by supervised launch and neighborhood service. Prosecutors sought a 15-year jail sentence and $8 million in restitution.

“I stand earlier than you taking accountability for Theranos. I liked Theranos. It was my life’s work,” Holmes said earlier than receiving the sentence of 135 months, or 11.25 years. “I remorse my failings with each cell of my physique.”

In October, Holmes again tried to avoid prison by seeking a new trial. (After her conviction earlier this year, she has filed several such motions.) The latest motion came after former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, a witness who testified against Holmes, came to her home attempting to apologize for the role he played in her conviction. That led Holmes to argue against the use of his testimony against her, but a judge rejected the motion in early November.

In June 2018, Holmes had been charged with 11 counts of fraud and convicted of four: one for conspiracy and three for wire fraud. A jury did not convict her of charges related to defrauding patients by subjecting them to faulty blood tests, which gave them false positives for HIV, miscarriage, and cancer. Theranos had made a deal with Walgreens, which included plans to put Theranos blood-testing centers in thousands of its stores across the US. But Walgreens had not done a full, independent validation of the tech, and instead gambled on Theranos.