Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex May Hold Her Ticket to Less Prison Time

Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes has good reason to root against her former boyfriend when he takes his turn at trial.

And it has nothing to do with how she feels about the man she claims abused her for years. Rather, a guilty verdict for company ex-president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani might help Holmes get a break on a prison sentence that could easily be more than a decade.

The former chief executive officer’s attempts to shift blame on Balwani for the blood-testing startup’s collapse failed to stop jurors from finding her guilty in January of defrauding investors.

But Holmes will ...