There seems to have actually been a wedding. At least, I read somewhere that her partner went to this wedding, and then returned. Who knows, maybe if she’d sprung for the round trip ticket, she would have convinced someone to let her travel. Then she could have cut and run in Mexico. I’m thinking she must not be very bright.
This isn’t really odd among that set. When you don’t have a job to get back to, you don’t need to plan the return trip like normal people.
But it’s odd (or dumb) when you are embroiled in a high-profile legal case facing incarceration.
If you accept the statement that the ticket was bought before the verdict and she expected to be acquitted, then that isn’t pertinent.
Granted, given her relationship to the truth, that’s a big if. But it really doesn’t make sense otherwise.
Her husband went on ahead to Mexico on January 26th for the wedding as planned and returned to his convicted wife…on March 4th via Cape Town in South Africa.
Sometimes I don’t just get how rich people think (or some rich people I guess I should say). Let’s accept for the moment that his junket was completely innocent. “Hey light of my life, sucks that you just got convicted of multiple felonies a few weeks ago. Anyway I’ve gone ahead and cancelled your ticket like the Feds requested. I’m still going of course. I’ll see your pregnant self again in…oh…let’s say about six weeks. Keep your chin up!”
Just weird to me.
Going to the wedding without her, given that she couldn’t go, doesn’t seem especially weird to me. I have no idea what the side trip to South Africa was, but eh. I assume she has servants to take care of stuff like making supper.
Rich people I know usually buy all the airfare at once, and don’t buy one-way tickets, but maybe that’s changed now that prices aren’t cheaper for round trips. (Yes, rich people care about prices, usually. Especially people who got rich themselves. You don’t get rich without caring about money. People born into money don’t always care.)
Nor me, necessarily. I’d have almost certainly cancelled, but that’s just me.
Leaving your almost literally just convicted, pregnant wife (and presumably less than two-year old child) at home for ~six weeks while you take an extended international vacation seems weird to me. It’s not about supper, it’s about emotional support and bonding.
“These primitive human emotions are what make you weak, land-crawler!” croaks the black turtlenecked Deep One with an unblinking stare and long blonde locks. “Mother Hydra and Father Dagon will call upon the Great Cthulhu to rise from his slumbering under R’lyeh and consume your pathetic civilization! Your pitifully weak weapons of destruction are no match for that which sleeps the ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep in the abyssal depths where you daren’t explore. We seek only your blood, one drop at a time to gain purchase over your consciousness! The Great Old Ones will prevail!”
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This doesn’t seem to have been a fake passport. It’s a real passport that belonged to someone else. Sadly a white woman with an American accent isn’t subject to much careful scrutiny, apparently. So maybe I need to reconsider my position. Maybe if is possible for a white woman to board an international private jet flight with any other white woman’s passport. Whether billionaire or not.
At least that end-game has some logic to it. I’d develop a lot more respect for the mental agility of Holmes if it turned out she was actually born in Innsmouth.
The West Coast chapter of the Esoteric Order of Dagon is located in Inverness near the Deep One colony off of Point Reyes, north of San Francisco. Tomalas Bay is a hotbed of Cthuhoid activity, and I never go there without refreshing my Mythos Lore and carving a fresh Elder Sign into my warding staff.
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Well, she is really interested in blood, after all…
That’s all the more reason to go on the trip now. Pregnant + recently convicted of multiple felonies = dad about to become sole caregiver (less staff, of course). If he doesn’t get his globe-trotting in now, it will be 11-18 years before he gets another chance.
Balwani just lost his bid to say out pending his appeal. He has to report to prison by April 20th.
Drug test to follow no doubt (but not on a Theranos device, for obvious reasons).
So, he got 13 years, and she 11 years, and they are both expected to report to prison around the same time - April, 2023 (assuming her appeal for delay also fails). What are the chances either of them will serve all that time? He would be getting out in 2036 and she in 2034 - I have a hard time believing either of them will serve that - so what are the likely amounts of time each of them will serve, assuming good behavior and not swindling other prisoners out of their money? When are these two characters expected to be walking the streets again?
If they were convicted in federal court, they’ll serve 85% (unless COVID changed things I’m not aware of). (15% off for “good time”) Of that time, they will probably serve the last 6 months or so in a halfway house type of facility.
Holmes’s request was denied. She will report to prison. Part of her request is that she is “continuing to work on new inventions” lol
I wonder if she really isn’t a flight risk. I could certainly see her holing up in, say, Andorra.
Hell yeah, lock her up! I remember reading somewhere that (perhaps before her arrest, or trial) that she had plans and a disguise for travel to Mexico. Something like that.