Henry Kissinger was once a board member at Elizabeth Holmes' failed blood-testing venture Theranos and was influential in recruiting other big donors for the startup.
Lawyers for NIkola founder Trevor Milton said he should not face incarceration because his case is nothing like that of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Schena claimed that his Sunnyvale, California based company, Arrayit Corporation, was the only laboratory in the world that had "revolutionary microarray technology."