Posts Tagged ‘ Martin Shkreli ’

$750 per pill

Dec 17th, 2015 9:39 am | By

It’s not nice to rejoice in a misfortune that befalls someone else, but sometimes the misfortune fits the apparent character of the someone else in question so well that…

…well I won’t rejoice but I’ll just quietly point out.

Martin Shkreli: busted.

Martin Shkreli, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has been widely criticized for drug price gouging, was arrested Thursday morning by the federal authorities.

The investigation, in which Mr. Shkreli has been charged with securities fraud, is related to his time as a hedge fund manager and running the biopharmaceutical company Retrophin — not the price-gouging controversy that has swirled around him.

Different thing, and yet so similar at its core.

Mr. Shkreli, 32,

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