Miss Karma Gets Mr. Pharma
Remember Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who upped the price of a life-saving drug from $13.50 to $750 per pill?
Remember his 32-year-old smirking face explaining that’s free enterprise and that alone makes him a better American than the people who are dying?
Remember how he was flat gleeful over becoming a multimillionaire and you wanted to smack his rear end?
Nah …. forget all that.
Here’s what you’ll want to remember about this guy.
Martin Shkreli, the price-gouging pharmaceutical company executive, was arrested early Thursday morning on securities fraud charges.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn charged him with illegally taking stock from Retrophin Inc., a biotechnology firm he started in 2011, and using it to pay off debts from unrelated business dealings.
That little nincompoop was arrested on securities fraud! Well, put the frying pan in the pot, call the dogs off the porch and get granny’s dancing shoes – there’s gonna be a party.
Thanks to Don for the heads up.
Gotta love Miss Karma
1Now if only Ms. Karma would acquaint herself with Rafael Cruz, I would have the best Christmas present ever!
2Another narcissistic sociopatic CEO type bites the dust…hopefully to be put away for a long time…thanks Ms. Karma…stepping up your time line would be a great Christmas present!
3“Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.” And so’s Karma!
4I hope whatever lawyer he hires raises their prices by at least 700%.
5Oh boy, that couldn’t have happened to a more spoiled rotten “nicer” guy. One can only hope they throw the book at him so someone else can run the company and lower those ridiculous prices.
6“Mr Shkreli, normally our practice charges $1000 a day to defend clients in securities frauds cases. However given the fact set in this case you will be subject to a surcharge. $55,555.55 a day. We like to call that “value billing”.”
7They are not just threatening jail. From USA Today, “The SEC is pursuing a disgorgement of ill-gotten profits, civil penalties and a ban on serving as an corporate officer and director.”
So, jail and having his money and career taken away. Gee, hope he doesn’t come down with some serious disease that requires extremely expensive medicine. That would really be a bummer.
Note that it sounds as though there is pretty solid evidence, so they may actually nail him.
8Would it be small minded to wish he got toxoplasmosis.
9You are too kind, glf! 5000% would be more like it. Show no mercy to this entitled creep.
10Once a scumbag, always a scumbag. Unhappy holidays, Marty.
11I expect this will be settled before there is any trial.
I’m no lawyer, but JJ–ask Bubba. If there is a trial would a lawyer want to put Shkreli on the stand, or for that matter even have him sitting where the jury can see him?
12Gosh, this reminds me of how the Feds got Capone!
13Why, it’s a Christmas Miracle!
14Christmas came early this year!
15“A New York lawyer, Evan Greebel, was also arrested early Thursday. He’s accused of conspiring with Shkreli in part of the scheme.”
16How much was his bond, does anyone know?
17Oops, I definitely did the math incorrectly; +5000% increase in lawyer rates is more appropriate.
18Carol’s right! I was so sick & tired of Trump, I prayed for a diversion. And look! My prayers have been answered! It IS a Christmas Miracle!
Can’t wait to look in my Christmas Stocking. I’m hoping for a retirement home in Mexico. Santa?
19Hootin’ happy over that. Shame on him and on all the other vultures hovering nearby. And I like vultures.
20If he is sentenced to prison will be learn how to knit socks for his new best friend and cellmate Gus? Will he be accorded the benefits of Vasoline? Skinny white dudes in the joint seem to have a lot of sex appeal. Well I wish him the best in his new home. Who knows he might find true love.
21Huh.
The article says, “As a youth, he showed exceptional promise and independence” then segues right into the fact that he dropped out of high school and headed off to Wall Street. Maybe that combo should have given somebody a heads-up?
And you know the guy has hit rock bottom when The Donald calls him a spoiled brat.
22Yes Juanita, there is a Santa Claus.
23glf – Andy Borowitz has a news release today about his attorney raising his fees by 750% and the dbag complaining this was inhumane treatment. Wait till he gets to prison and finds out about another kind of inflation. #cellblockpromqueen
24I thought my gift this year was the 2 full cans of Bud Light hidden in the branches of the bush at the end of my driveway, but NOOOOOOOO! This is much better. The celebration starts today! Now if only good news out of Texas about Perry and Abbot could top it off.
25@Sam in San Antonio
While sexual assaults do happen inside prisons and have prolly since the first gaol was created, they are not an intended part of the punishment of incarceration and they are not usually thought of as contributing to discouraging future assaultive behavior. They are not “good”. They should not be encouraged by tacit approval.
26You are right of course, Micr… although I seriously doubt this scum will be looking through the bars from inside. We’re just channeling our inner brat. I understand his fancy one-of-a kind recording was confiscated. I hope the feds listen to it about 100 times.
27Happy days are here again! May he lose all his ill-gotten gains and his livelihood, even if he never spends a day in jail. Maybe life will yet bash some empathy into that nasty little head.
28I think if you’re making brownies you need to put the pot in the frying pan, not the other way ’round…
29@Linda Phipps
I didn’t intend to harsh anyone’s mellow, but nod and a wink approving of the sodomizing of any inmate, regardless of the inmate’s crime and his deservedness, is not a prescription for rehabilitation and reentrance into the society outside.
30@Micr
31Is anything in our prison system a prescription for rehabilitation and reentrance? I know that was the intent, but (in this country) I have never seen anything but caging people and expecting them to be all better after their sentence is done.
Your point is valid though. Torture has never been effective for anything. The fact that that and worse happens in our prisons is a poor reflection on our society indeed.
Thanks, Micr, that was temperately expressed.
32UPDATE: Just minutes ago our boy walked out of court after posting $5M bond. It would have been less but the judge marked it up 750%. /snark
33@TrulyTexan
You make a truly difficult to deal with point. In the history of Texas prisons, a few inmates have found a low point from which to build up. Probably much more that 90% do not and recidivism in some crime is near 100% – burglary for instance. The ideal is rehabilitation. Re-entrance will happen for most inmates sooner rather than later.
34Shkreli was released on a $5 million bond, and had his travel restricted to parts of New York
35@cookie
36Thanks. If they were alive your having said that would gratify my sainted mother and astonish my sainted mother-in-law.
I hope they appoint a bulldog type to retrieve the money he scammed from innocent people. A big time Minnesota scumball scammer has been in prison for 5+ years, and the attorney charged with clawing back $ is still at it.
Most of those sociopaths are such narcissistic blowhards they insist on taking the stand. Big mistake as they nearly always make it all worse for themselves. Can you imagine someone like t-Rump -not- testifying?
37The view is nice from the high road, isn’t it Micr! Thanks for inviting us to join you in the nicest possible way! Reminds us of who we’re s’posed to be!
38Once they make an example of him, the wolves will be placated…please don’t be placated!
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