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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 option, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill overnight in 2015.
The move was met with widespread criticism, including from both then-presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Here’s a look at Martin Shkreli’s life, and how he got to where he is today:
Martin Shkreli had humble beginnings. On March 17, 1983, he was born in Coney Island Hospital to Albanian and Croatian immigrant parents, who both worked as janitors in Brooklyn.
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Shkreli learned about stocks as a child, from a neighbor named Marty who would play chess with him in the 1990s.
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Shkreli was an ambitious child. “I kept thinking even as a young kid — at 10 or 11 years — I could have a company as big as Eli Lilly or Merck,” said Shkreli. He ended up buying his first stock shares, in the computer company Compaq, at age 12.
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