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Posted: 2022-11-18T22:15:18Z | Updated: 2022-11-18T22:34:13Z

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to 135 months, or 11.25 years, in prison for her role in defrauding investors in her blood-testing company. Shell have an additional three years of supervised release.

Holmes wont have to report to prison until April of next year.

Holmes, 38, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who sits on the federal court in the Northern District of California and oversaw her trial last year. Davila said hed set a date in the future for Holmes restitution hearing, according to reporters in the courtroom.

Holmes, who is pregnant for the second time, spoke in court Friday while crying.

I stand before you taking responsibility for Theranos. It was my lifes work, she said, according to reporters in the courtroom.

I am devastated by my failings, she said, noting shes felt deep pain for what people went through because I failed them. She went on to apologize to investors and patients, adding, I regret my failings with every cell of my body.

Her sentencing comes after a last-ditch attempt by Holmes and her legal team to secure a new trial , staking it to claims that a key witness for the prosecution regrets the role he played in her conviction. Davila denied the request earlier this month.

Jurors convicted Holmes on Jan. 4 on one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud against Theranos investors and three counts of fraud in connection to wire transfers. Each count carried a maximum of 20 years in prison and could be served concurrently. Prosecutors asked Davila to sentence her to 15 years .

She repeatedly chose lies, hype and the prospect of billions of dollars over patient safety and fair dealing with investors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Leach wrote in a 46-page brief filed last week. Elizabeth Holmes crimes were not failing, they were lying lying in the most serious context, where everyone needed her to tell the truth.