Holmes Judge Won’t Block Theranos Patient Complaint Evidence (1)

Elizabeth Holmes lost her bid to to suppress evidence of Theranos Inc. customer complaints and blood testing results as evidence at her criminal fraud trial scheduled to start at the end of the month.

The federal judge handling the case also rejected the former Theranos chief executive officer’s request to exclude findings from a regulatory report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that proved damaging to the company.

Holmes’s lawyers have argued that the government dropped the ball by allowing a Theranos laboratory database to go irretrievably dark. Without the patient data it contains, they argued, the ...