The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of the now-defunct health technology company Theranos, is a case study of how greed for wealth has, in many cases, been overtaken by greed for influence.

Holmes claimed Theranos had technology capable of doing hundreds of different tests utilizing only a few drops of blood as opposed to drawing with a needle. Those claims turned out to be false and Holmes is under federal indictment for wire fraud for bilking investors, doctors, and patients.