Martin Shkreli, the price-gouging pharmaceutical company executive, was arrested early Thursday morning on securities fraud charges.
The 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG became known as the most hated man on the Internet after buying the rights to a life-saving medication and jacking up the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
Federal investigators charged Shkreli with illegally taking stock from Retrophin Inc., another biotech firm he founded in 2011, to pay off debts from unrelated business dealings, reported Bloomberg.
He was “unceremoniously dumped” from that company in September 2014 and sued by its board.
The lawsuit alleges that Shkreli used a series of “extra-legal maneuvers” to essentially turn Retrophin into his personal bank — and now the company seeks every bit of money he made off the company.
I know we're not supposed to hope for prison rape, but can't I make an exception just this one time?
I mean this guy is the scum of the earth. In fact I take that back, because it's really an insult to your usual everyday scum.
By the way just in case you think I am exaggerating, recently Shkreli purchased the ONLY copy made of the Wu-Tang Clan's album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin."
He then said he had no intention of ever even listening to the album, which REALLY pissed off fans of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip hop music.
When asked in an interview about it, Shkreli said this:
In the HipHopDX interview, Shkreli discusses the recent comments from Wu-Tang Clan members who say they wish they could take their album back. “If I hand you $2 million, f—ing show me some respect,” he said. “At least have the decency to say nothing or ‘no comment.’”
If anyone wants to hear his Wu-Tang Clan album, of which there is only one copy, he has a price for that, too. “I’m not going to play it for no reason,” he said. “If Taylor Swift wants to come over and s— my d— I’ll play it for her.”
Like I said......scum. Only much, much worse.
Seriously the only thing I can't understand is, with that shitty of a personality how is he not running for the GOP nomination?
Trump/Shkreli 2016!
ReplyDeleteI find Martin Shkreli's entire existence to be completely improbable. Seriously, how do you end up with a guy with the perfect douchebag name, the perfect doucheweasel face AND he's an arrogant lowlife subhuman shitheel CEO of the highest order? If someone made this guy up for a movie, he would be too over-the-top!
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I believe in this case you can congratulate Bubba now for his soon to be wife. This guy looks like he’s going to have a tough time in prison with his boyish face. Besides, I’m sure the prisoners will find out about his greed by raising a life saving drug by 5000%. I’m sorry, but what this guy did and the lives he could have possibly shorten or lost for his greed is inexcusable. He also caused a lot of people who relied on that drug to go broke trying to afford his drug. I hope he gets in for a long prison term, and I also wonder if the price of the drug will not go back to its original price.
ReplyDeleteWhen and if he does go to prison I hope that he says to all the "Bubbas" in prison what he said about Taylor Swift sucking his dick. hahahah!
DeleteSomething tells me that it's not Taylor Swift who's going to suck dicks.
DeleteNow I know who writes all those nasty comments on all the right wing sites and Reddit - it's guys like this guy and "JosieWhales".
ReplyDeleteapparently the little douch has watched The Wolf of Wall Street too many times and just hasn't caught the ending ..
ReplyDeleteShort attention span.
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Fuck Rahm Emanuel! Impeach him too.
Take care of Trig Lou Sarah.
DeleteI love the smell of karma in the morning.
ReplyDeleteThe nasty little asswipe bought up the rights to yet another drug and and his plan to jack up the price makes his actions with Daraprim look downright humanitarian:
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"Mr. Shkreli said ... last week that if the company won F.D.A. approval for benznidazole, it would have exclusive rights to sell it in the United States for at least five years. He said the price would be similar to that of hepatitis C drugs, which cost $60,000 to nearly $100,000 for a course of treatment.
In Latin America, benznidazole costs $50 to $100 for the typical two-month course of treatment."
Hopefully this latest plan will fall apart.
I think Mr. Shkreli is doing a service to this country showing just how fucked up our medical/pharma system is in this country.
DeleteHe's screwing the insurance companies who will in turn raise rates for everyone.
This is what happens when you profit from death and extort from people who must pay up or die.
Senator Elizabeth Warren lookin kind of good to me right now,
ReplyDeleteNice picture. First time I've seen one without his smart ass little smirk.
ReplyDeleteWhy does this not surprise me??
ReplyDeleteSo he wants Taylor Swift to give him head? He's going to prison so he'd best learn for his own well-being how to give a good blowjob.
ReplyDeleteDidn't expect karma to work quite so fast. Nice.
ReplyDeleteThat comment about Taylor Swift was as disgusting as it was disturbing. What kind of parents raise a little son of a bitch like him? Greedy pos.
ReplyDeleteAnd now he's out on 5 Million bond. Didn't take long, did it?
ReplyDeleteHope they made him surrender his passport.
DeleteStraight out sociopath. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a murder or two in his background as well.
ReplyDeleteGreed bites them in the ass every time. As for rape in prison, that's the least of his worries. I hope when he closes his eyes, he's haunted by those who died because they couldn't afford his blood money.
ReplyDeleteHow come he gets to wear a hoodie without being shot? Never mind I know the answer
ReplyDeleteProbably because he didn't blindside someone and start bashing their head into a sidewalk.
DeleteI would hope for big-boy prison but look at this douchenozzle - he will probably try to claim affluenza. Dick.
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#Breaking no seizure warrant at the arrest of Martin Shkreli today, which means we didn't seize the Wu-Tang Clan album.
https://twitter.com/NewYorkFBI/status/677597263540191232
I'll bet the FBI guys played that album, though. Some nice background music while they were copying all the hard drives.
ReplyDeleteKarmageddon is a bitch.
ReplyDeleteI hope that whenever the chips finally settle, some judge makes as part of the terms that he releases that license for FREE to any manufacturer that is willing to make the drug and that patients only pay COST for the pills. No more profiteering from the dying. There is nothing worse than extorting money from the sick, forcing them to pay or literally die.
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ReplyDeleteNot. The. Onion.
Not. A. Miracle! Either.
SALT LAKE CITY — A "bleeding host" reported after a communion wafer turned water red was caused by bread mold, not a miracle, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City said Wednesday.
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2015/12/test_on_bleeding_host_in_utah.html
Nofa King Clue!
Next week: Church announces apologizes for false alarm, accused witches don't really float?
Note he was arrested for the securities fraud, i.e., ripping off rich investors. Jacking up prices of pharmaceuticals like he did is still legal in the US.
ReplyDeleteOff Track: The "Affluenza Teen" is AWOL. Seems he was caught violating parole on video that was reported to the authorities. He and his Mother are missing.
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