Defense attorneys for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes have asked a federal judge in San Jose to dismiss the criminal indictment against her and the company’s former COO and president Ramesh Balwani, claiming that prosecutors have failed to allege any single fraudulent statement or misrepresentation made about the now-defunct blood-testing company.

“Ms. Holmes cannot prepare her defense without knowing what statements by whom, to whom, and about what the government claims were fraudulent,” wrote Holmes’ lawyers at Williams & Connolly in court papers filed Monday. “And neither the defense nor the court can be confident that the grand jury passed upon whatever statements the government ultimately attempts to offer at trial when the Indictment does not indicate what those statements are,” they wrote.

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