Tag: Shkreli

23 AUG

Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the names of journalists critical of him and customizing them with mocking messages

Thomson Reuters Over the past several months, former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has trolled journalists who have written or tweeted about him by purchasing the internet domains associated with their names. After sitting on the domain names for months, Shkreli appears to be customizing the sites, explicitly mocking reporters who have tweeted about him. On a website named after Vanity […]

17 AUG

‘I think he’s a greedy little man’: Prospective jurors revealed contempt for ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Martin Shkreli was found guilty on two counts of securities fraud earlier this month, but the process of selecting a jury for the case against the former pharmaceutical CEO and hedge fund founder appeared to be as lively as the trial itself. Some of the 200 potential jurors apparently did not hold back their views […]

07 AUG

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun, Martin Shkreli Edition

Martin Shkreli could not be more of this moment. He livestreams freewheeling monologues on YouTube to anyone who will watch. He’s been suspended from Twitter. His hiking, overnight, of the price of a lifesaving drug in 2015 from $ 13.50 to $ 750 so perfectly embodied Americans’ current complaints about health care that he was […]

05 AUG

The life of ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli, who was convicted of securities fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison

AP Photo/Richard Drew Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical CEO, was found guilty of securities fraud on Friday — but that was hardly the first time he’s been in the news. Shkreli has been a controversial figure in the public eye ever since he hiked costs of Daraprim, an AIDS treatment drug that has no generic […]

04 AUG

Shkreli verdict: Guilty on three of eight counts of securities and wire fraud

Enlarge / NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 4: Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli arrives at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, August 4, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Jurors are onto the fifth day of deliberations and have not reached a verdict. Shkreli faces eight counts […]