Holmes Hired Dermatologist at Theranos When Going Got Rough.

Following other former Theranos lab employees whotestified for the government that the company was takingdangerous short-cuts, Dhawan was put on the stand to showthat Holmes and Balwani weren't serious about running aprofessional lab. Sunil Dhawan, who'd been Theranos President Ramesh"Sunny" Balwani's private doctor, testified Thursday atHolmes's criminal fraud trial that he signed on as afull-time employee just one day ahead of a plannedfederal inspection of the lab in September 2015 and"assumed" that after the audit he was no longer anemployee. (Bloomberg) -- When Theranos Inc. was under fire fromhealth regulators, Elizabeth Holmes and hersecond-in-command hired a dermatologist to be the labdirector at the blood-testing startup -- paying himhandsomely to do little work, U.S. prosecutors say. [Extracted from the article]

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