abusive corporate drug kingping Martin Shkreli weasels out in House hearings

Uber Lib · Feb 4, 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...artin-shkreli-at-house-hearing-on-drug-prices

Martin Shkreli, the latest poster boi for biggest pos, invoked his 5th and smirked his rat face thruout the hearing regarding egregious actions against US citizens
as soon as he stepped out chamber doors he started tweeting his cess against those who care about such prolific abusers
maybe somebody will remove his teeth before he pollutes further, you never know, it could happen

waltky · Jun 4, 2016

Granny says, "Dat's right - sneaky lil' devil, ain't he?...

Ex-drug executive Shkreli hid control of shares, U.S. says
Jun 03 2016 - U.S. prosecutors tacked on an additional criminal charge to their case against former drug executive Martin Shkreli on Friday, alleging that he tried to conceal from investors his control over unrestricted shares in Retrophin Inc.

Federal prosecutors in the New York City borough of Brooklyn filed a superseding indictment with eight criminal counts against Shkreli, who last year became a lightning rod for outrage over soaring prescription drug prices. He was initially indicted in December on seven counts. Shkreli, 33, pleaded not guilty to the earlier indictment and is awaiting a possible trial this year or next. "The new indictment adds nothing of value to the government's case that still relies on a flawed theory as to Mr. Shkreli," his lawyer Benjamin Brafman said in a statement.

Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, appears before a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

According to the new indictment, in 2012 Shkreli and Retrophin's outside counsel Evan Greebel divided 2 million of the company's unrestricted shares across seven employees and contractors in such a way as to avoid the reporting requirements of federal securities law. Shkreli and Greebel also in effect controlled the shares by preventing some of the employees and contractors from selling them but they did not disclose that control to securities regulators, the indictment says.

Greebel, who was charged in the earlier indictment and pleaded not guilty, also faces the additional charge, bringing the number of counts against him to two. A lawyer for him declined to comment. Last year, Shkreli sparked outrage after another company he ran, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of the drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent to $750 a pill.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli-idUSKCN0YP2K4
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Professor Peabody · Jun 4, 2016

If Hillary's elected he will quite likely walk anyway................

Top Industries, federal election data
Election cycles covered: 2016

Hillary Clinton donations.

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products.....$2,934,221

Spooky · Jun 4, 2016

He was advised to plead the fifth by his lawyer. His lawyer said he would only represent him if this guy quit talking.

waltky · Dec 2, 2016

Aussie high school students recreate Daraprim generic...

Aussie students recreate Shkrelis price-hike drug
Fri, Dec 02, 2016 - A group of Australian high-school students have managed to recreate a life-saving drug that rose from US$13.50 to US$750 a tablet overnight after an unscrupulous price increase by former US hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli.

The Sydney Grammar students reproduced the drug, Daraprim, used to treat a rare, but deadly parasitic infection, in their high-school laboratory with support from the University of Sydney and global members of the Open Source Malaria consortium. Alice Williamson, a post-doctoral teaching fellow with the University of Sydneys school of chemistry, said she could not stop dwelling on the story of Shkreli, who acquired Daraprim last year through his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, and almost immediately and exorbitantly raised the price. The drug is used to treat malaria and to prevent toxoplasmosis infection in people with HIV.

The move made him a public villain, a label he embraced as he also became known as Pharma Bro. I couldnt get this story out of my head, it just seemed so unfair, especially since the drug is so cheap to make and had been sold so cheaply for so long, Williamson said. I said: Why dont we get students to make Daraprim in the lab, because to me the route looked pretty simple. I thought if we could show that students could make it in the lab with no real training, we could really show how ridiculous this price hike was and that there was no way it could be justified. Sydney Grammar could afford to pay for the equipment and chemicals, and had the facilities. The group of year 11 students were talented and confident, Williamson said, and decided to give it a go.

The students made their work open to the Internet, and scientists anywhere in the world were able to view all the data generated and mentor the students to accelerate their progress. Williamson and university associate professor Matthew Todd also mentored the students. Todd told the Guardian Australia that what the students had achieved was a little Breaking Bad, a television show about a struggling high-school chemistry teacher who works with one of his former students to produce and sell crystal meth. With the right guidance, they could do everything safely, Todd said. There were clues in literature already from patents around these molecules, but they had to change things as some reagents were nasty and dangerous, so some invention was needed on their part. The open source platform meant as they posted data in real time, Alice, myself and others could guide them.

He said the open nature of the project demystified science and revealed the number of roadblocks the students had faced in coming up with the final product, which involved three complicated chemical steps. With science results you can be presented with a polished finished product that hides the false steps along the way, he said. The students real-time diary highlights their whole process and is a very transparent way of doing things, he added. The students realized they had succeeded two weeks ago when their teacher, Malcolm Binns, took Todd and Williamson a sample. Alice did the analysis and looked at the screen, and said: Oh my god, theyve done it, and not only have they done it, its super pure. Its A-grade. I couldnt believe my eyes, Todd said. That was the moment. I realized they had nailed it. The students were over the moon, he said.

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