Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes asks to delay trial due to pregnancy

If a United States district judge in California agrees to the request, it will be the fourth time Holmes’s fraud trial has been delayed.

Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, her lawyers and the government said in a court filing requesting a six-week delay for her fraud trial which was due to start July 13. “On March 2, 2021, counsel for defendant advised the government that defendant is pregnant, with an expected due date in July 2021,” prosecutors and Holmes’s lawyers said in the filing Friday. “In light of this development, it is not feasible to begin the trial on July 13, 2021, as currently scheduled.” The two sides asked for the trial to start Aug. 31 instead.