Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani will be heading to prison later this month after a U.S. appeals court rejected his bid to remain free while he contests fraud and conspiracy convictions for his part in a blood-testing hoax with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes.
The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday refusing Balwani’s request to delay the start of his nearly 13-year prison sentence still leaves open the question of when he will have to surrender to authorities.
Jeffrey Coopersmith, one of Balwani’s lawyers, proposed that Balwani, 57, report to prison on April 20 in a motion
