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IF YOU HAVE ONLY ONE CHOICE, YOU AIN'T GOT A VOICE.

     Elizabeth Holmes is guilty on four counts of defrauding investors in her miraculous claim to have invented a way to read your medical tea-leaves with a single drop of blood. To be precise, she was convicted of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud investors. Her defense, that she was in an abusive relationship with her business partner Ramesh, Sunny, Balwani, did not bring her the not guilty verdict she had hoped. More will no doubt come out in his upcoming trial, stay tuned.       I do not wish to sound callous. Ms. Holmes may well have been abused by a larger, richer, and more powerful male partner. There would be no surprise there. In the realm of sexual relationships power is most often in favor of the male partner. There is a similar, but more subtle rubric in business relationships. Men usually have the right connections and access to the most money. That proverbial glass ceiling, may have some cracks but it has not yet collapsed to the floor. To