Hopefully her and her "husband" go to jail once the extent of his fraud comes to light, which I'm willing to bet she had knowledge of.
Of course she had knowledge of the fraud. All that her and her husband do is play the gender and race card and sue people. Her husband has played the race card multiple times and has sued people and groups with deep pockets over alleged racism and has not lost a suit yet. In fact, he is currently suing the famous New York City apartment building "The Dakota" over alleged racial discrimination and he has his hands full with that one. He sued The Dakota after they wouldn't let him continue to buy up so many rooms in their building like he had wanted to do over the years and had done to an extent. When The Dakota took a look at his finances they refused to allow him to buy any more rooms in their building because they could see that his finances looked shady and they didn't want to be thrown for a loop by him and get caught up in his now well-known serious financial difficulties. They denied him more rooms because they were afraid that he wouldn't be able to afford them. This was a few years ago. Now, after his hedge fund was audited (as a consequence of The Dakota denying him the ability to purchase more rooms due to concerns about his finances) and found to be bankrupt and since the SEC has put the guy who was a special prosecutor in the Watergate trials in charge of investigating his assets, we know that The Dakota was right to deny him more property and/or room ownership and - just like his wife Ellen - he played the discrimination card when faced with the fact that his finances were very sketchy and couldn't accept that he wasn't being given more rooms due to his race.
Pao obviously brought her suit against Kleiner so soon after her husband's hedge fund was declared bankrupt because she didn't want to miss that window of opportunity to sue for upwards of $100 million which would seriously help her husband to get out of the jam he is in with the Feds and the SEC. In fact, the $144 million payout that Pao was eligible to receive if the jury found in her favor is the exact amount that her husband is accused of defrauding/taking a Louisiania pension fund investor group for and it is why he is being investigated for serious fraud.[1] All of this is made clear in hindsight when you read the two articles in Vanity Fair[2] and Fortune magazines[3] about this seedy and shady couple. Hell, both Ellen Pao and her husband Buddy Fletcher were on the front cover of a 2012 issue of Fortune magazine[4]   over their sordid and unraveling private and professional lives. For some reason, Reddit's leadership found it wise to get into with bed these people. If you haven't read the two magazine pieces yet then I highly recommend them for their collective entertainment and information value. One of my favorite passages and/or quotes taken from these two pieces is that of Reddit's former legal counsel and Silicon Valley woman-in-tech Rebecca Eisenberg.
Pao kept racking up the Ivy League degrees. From Princeton she went straight to law school at Harvard; then, after a stint at Cravath Swaine & Moore, she earned another Harvard degree, this time from the business school. “She is one of the least objectionable people on earth,” says Rebecca Eisenberg, a law school classmate. “She doesn’t stand out. She’s the type of person who just goes about her business.”
Her friend Rebecca's comments are somewhat laughable now given that the jury heard plenty of evidence to the contrary and thoroughly disagreed with Pao's view of herself as someone who fits Eisenberg's description. Why is this my favorite passage and why do I find it interesting? It couldn't be because Eisenberg is a proud and self-avowed feminist and social justice warrior who had her "awakening"[5] while both she and Pao were both attending Harvard Law School in the early 90s, could it? Surely I can't be the only person who finds it interesting that Eisenberg wrote about her "metamorphosis" into a feminist crusader as a law student at Harvard at the same time that Pao - her friend - was also studying at the famed university, right? Both that link to Eisenberg's thoughts as a twenty-something law student and Pao's gender suit against Kleiner show you the type of people who gain power and influence at reddit. If you look close enough at those in power on this site, you'll see that they're all Leftists and San Fran liberals who are into social justice and feminism. We even have a former reddit admin moderating /r/Shitredditsays[6] for God's sake. Those like reddit co-founder Alexis O'Hanian who aren't on board with these views are then shamed into adopting them and shamed into giving people like Pao and Eisenberg power and control on his website out of pathetic White tech geek guilt after they've been told by the media that they're not "diverse" enough and that reddit is "too White."[7]
If you take a look at who Pao follows on Twitter you'll see that she follows dozens of feminists and social justice warriors like Anita Sarkeesian, Jessica Valenti, Jill Filipovic, Brianna Wu, etc., and she tried to take a page out of their "I'm a victim and I'm being harassed" playbook to get herself an obscene payout to salvage her professional and private life as well as that of her under-investigation husband. She saw this type of crap work for these people and just how much our media allows for people to play the White guilt/diversity/discrimination hustle on weak-willed tech geeks out in Silicon Valley but what she didn't realize is that the court of public opinion and the court of law are two very different beasts. She thought that she could try to get her payout and sympathy in a court of law but she was wrong. People like Sarkeesian, Wu, and Zoe Quinn are able to run their gender harassment hustle successfully because they stay out of a court of laws devoid of feelz and stick to the realm of biased, chummy, liberal, and corrupt journalism/media to win over supporters and to win themselves sympathy money from pushovers like Intel.[8]
Pao thought that she could run the same hustle and raise the $$$ stakes even higher than her feminist/SJW peers but what she didn't fully understand is that the jury and the judge are by law instructed to be as impartial and unbiased as possible and to not be swayed by feelz, only facts. For such a smart woman, Pao didn't think it all out as well as she needed to to get her big payout but to be fair to her, she was desperate and had to go through with it all anyway for the sake of her husband, her daughter, and herself. Too bad.