Episode 75: Sunny Balwani Part I - It's Always Sunny in Balwani

Everyone talks about Elizabeth Holmes building up then bringing down Theranos but what about her other fraud half Ramesh aka "Sunny" Balwani? She was the black-turtle-neck-Steve-Jobs-face of the company while he was the acid-wash-jeans-creep-at-the-club-in-Gucci-loafers-wearing-too-much-cologne pulling the levers. Where did this guy come from and would Elizabeth have gotten as far without him? Also we got Fraudster Exclusive footage of Sunny that may or may not be from the TV show Lost. Listen now about how to level up your fraudulent tech company with just one drop of blood and a machine that doesn't work!

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Sources:

Carreyrou, J. (2022). Sunny. In Bad blood: Secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup (Kindle, pp. 67–80). essay, Vintage Books.

https://fortune.com/2022/12/07/sunny-balwani-sentencing-theranos-fraud-trial-elizabeth-holmes-how-much-prison-time/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/us-v-elizabeth-holmes-et-al

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/07/sunny-balwani-theranos-sentence-13-years

The Wall St Journal did the most investigation into Theranos than any other news agency that I can find. Here is a link to their collection of articles on Theranos (not Balwani specifically but contains good investigative details about the company and its downfall)

https://www.wsj.com/news/collection/theranos-coverage-ea13b200

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a26838289/who-is-ramesh-sunny-balwani/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/theranos-chief-operating-officer-ramesh-sunny-balwani-found-guilty-conspiracy-wire

SEC v. Ramesh “Sunny Balwani” 2018 https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-41-balwani.pdf