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Jury selection starts for the Elizabeth Holmes trial.



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Daily Business BriefingAug. 31, 2021Updated Aug. 31, 2021, 12:38 p.m. ETAug. 31, 2021, 12:38 p.m. ET Elizabeth Holmes arrives at court on Tuesday.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York TimesJury selection is beginning in the long-awaited trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos who faces a dozen counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.At the heart of the trial are questions of what exactly Ms. Holmes, 37, knew of the problems with Theranos’s blood-testing devices and whether she intentionally misled investors over the company’s technology. If convicted, she could serve up to 20 years in prison.

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