Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Jurors Return to Deliberations After Holiday Break

After a little vacation break, jurors successful the Elizabeth Holmes fraud proceedings returned to a South Bay courthouse Monday greeting to resume deliberations.

Before leaving Thursday, the assemblage spent the time relistening to December 2013 audio recordings of Holmes making bold promises astir Theranos and its alleged breakthrough blood-testing technology.

In the recordings, Holmes boasts astir however Theranos would "change the world of laboratory testing" and trim wellness costs truthful overmuch it would prevention Medicaid and Medicare astir $150 cardinal implicit a decade.

She besides spoke astir a woody that Theranos had to deploy its blood-testing exertion successful Walgreens pharmacies that was poised to rapidly ramp up, but Walgreens bailed retired of the woody implicit concerns the tests were unreliable.

Though national prosecutors accidental overmuch of what Holmes says successful the recordings is fraudulent, immoderate ineligible analysts antagonistic that specified boasts and promises are successful enactment with what galore Silicon Valley startups thin to do.

Holmes, 37, is charged with 9 counts of ligament fraud and 2 counts of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud. She faces up to 20 years successful situation if convicted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.