'Pharma Bro' wants to be released from prison to research coronavirus

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Convicted former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli is seeking to be released for three months to help research a treatment for the coronavirus.

wants to get out of prison so he can help research a treatment for the coronavirus, his lawyer said.

Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018 for crimes that included lying to investors about the performance of two hedge funds he ran, withdrawing more money from those funds than he was entitled to get, and defrauding investors in a drug company, Retrophin, by hiding his ownership of some of its stock.His client - best known before his arrest for pharmaceutical price-gouging and his controversial online persona - is housed at a low-security prison in Pennsylvania.

Shkreli wrote that his background "as a successful two-time biopharma entrepreneur, having purchased multiple companies, invented multiple new drug candidates" would make him a valuable asset."I am one of the few executives experienced in ALL aspects of drug development," he said, adding, "I do not expect to profit in any way, shape or form from coronavirus-related treatments.

 

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Set the lab up in the left wing...order the mice ...budget good to go

Use him as a guinea pig!

Damn fine smirk 'Pharma Bro' got on him as well. Give the prick a few more years just for that

No

How has this guy not been shanked yet? I'm not willing or condoning such action, but I'd understand if it happened.

Nope

Bwahahaha. Dream on, pharmaboy. We could give you a coronavirus to play with, if you'd like. Alone.

Let him out 🤔

And hair dye.

Pharma Bro no diff from US gov distributing essential equip via the private market so states bid up prices (Kushner: “I'm not here to disrupt a supply chain.”), or Trump trying to buy exclusive rights to a potential German vaccine. Profits over people is why the US acted late.

Nah. Leave him exactly where he is. He's earnt it.

too funny !

How much will he charge this time?

Pharma Bro has done his bio PhD in stir? Well done son😉

Yeah right

Well...he has had plenty of 'thinking' time.

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