(NewsNation) — Elizabeth Holmes may currently be incarcerated at a Texas prison camp, but supersized images of the disgraced Theranos founder have appeared in California, Florida and New York City's Times Square.
There's one man behind the attention-catching billboards: Ryan "Egypt" El-Hosseiny, a Miami-based entrepreneur who claims he has recreated Holmes' blood-testing technology.
Holmes was convicted in 2022 for defrauding investors with false claims of what her California-based startup, Theranos, could accomplish. Her technology, which she said could detect diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood, never worked.
El-Hosseiny is trying his best to brand the Holmes muse as "innocent," one billboard at a time.
A self-described "accomplished filmmaker," El-Hosseiny is working o