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Careful, some/most(?) of the lawsuits aren't because of risking patient's lives. They're for things like defrauding investors. They're not somehow more guilty because they also happened to do some other wrong thing at the same time.


I understand and saying maybe there should be some criminal investigations as well. Someone dying or getting injured is not out of the realm of possibility when they had known bad test results and continued anyway.


The feds are issuing subpoenas as well, though this [1] appears to make it sound like they're interested in the misleading investors angle.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/feds-target-theranos-with-cri...




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