- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes bought a one-way ticket to Mexico last year, per prosecutors.
- The flight was set to take off three weeks after she was convicted of defrauding investors.
- Prosecutors describe it as an "attempt to flee the country," BuzzFeed News reported.
Just weeks after she was convicted of defrauding investors, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was set to board a one-way flight to Mexico, according to prosecutors who characterize the trip as an attempt to flee the country.
The planned trip was revealed Thursday in a new court filing, BuzzFeed News reported. Prosecutors have alleged that Holmes — sentenced last November to more than 11 years in prison — has shown "no remorse" for the fraud she was convicted of perpetrating on those who believed her claims to have invented a revolutionary, new rapid blood test.
In their filing on Thursday, prosecutors provided emails from January 2022 showing the federal government was concerned that Holmes might seek to escape punishment.
"Recently, the government became aware that Ms. Holmes has a reservation for international air travel, scheduled to depart in the next few days," Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Schenk wrote in a January 23 email to Holmes' defense counsel. The trip was not approved beforehand, Schenk wrote, adding: "In light of her current bail conditions, we find this concerning."
In response, Holmes' attorney, Lance Wade, said the trip was planned prior to Holmes' conviction on January 3, 2022. "The hope was that the verdict would be different and Ms. Holmes would be able to make this trip to attend the wedding of close friends in Mexico," he wrote.
Holmes' attorney did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.