Martin Shkreli, sometimes known as "Pharma Bro", earned notoriety after obtaining the patent for an anti-parasitic drug and hiking the price from $13.50 a pill to $750. An FTC lawsuit ordered Shkreli in January 2022 to return almost $65 million in wrongfully obtained profits, and banned him for life from the pharmaceutical industry.In 2018, he was sentenced to federal prison for unrelated securities fraud; a U.S. Attorney stated he "essentially ran his company like a Ponzi scheme". He spent five years in prison, and was released in May 2022.Shkreli is also banned from the securities industry, and from serving as an officer or director of any publicly traded company.If this was anyone other than Martin Shkreli, I might have been surprised to hear that, only a little over two months out of prison and while still staying in a halfway house, Shkreli is launching a "web3 drug discovery software platform".
He ended up having a public spat with Ghost Face Killa. Not only did this guy own his art but increased the costs of his mother’s drugs. He’s lucky to still be breathing.
Yet he’s out and starting a new company?!
This is what people just don’t get. Justice doesn’t exist for the rich anymore.