Posted on 02/04/2016 9:19:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
At a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Shkreli repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which says no person shall be compelled in any criminal case "to be a witness against himself."
Wearing a sport jacket and collared shirt rather than his usual T-shirt, he responded to questions by laughing, twirling a pencil and yawning.
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, asked Shkreli what he would tell a single, pregnant woman with AIDS who needed Daraprim to survive, and whether he thought he had done anything wrong. Shkreli declined to answer.
"I intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours," said Shkreli after South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy suggested he could answer questions that were unrelated to pending fraud charges against him.
After the hearing, Shkreli's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, attributed his client's behavior to "nervous energy."
Later, though, Shkreli wrote on Twitter: "Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government."
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Despite the fact that he is a low-life amoebazoid, he does have a point about Congress.
no person shall be compelled in any criminal case “to be a witness against himself.”
Testifying Before CONGRESS is NOT A CRIMINAL CASE!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html?_r=0
and of course this is what the Radical Left thinks:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/house_arrest.html
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.†http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
His lawyer needs to keep PharmBro off of twitter. He’ll have to learn humility the hard way, but doesn’t believe that yet.
True, he has learned the democrats’ many lessons.
Isn’t he a big democrat donor?
Also, what is the background on this case?
They should have had the Sergeant of Arms arrest him and throw him in the House jail. And leave him there to think about his evil ways for awhile.
True. Elijah Cummings was in the room.
But on top of that, there's exactly one reason that Pharmaceutical companies charge prices as they do: because Congress enabled it via extended patent protections, which were in turn done because of the high cost of drug development, which is there because of rigorous testing, which is there because of the costs of litigation.
While this guy is a creep, he's a creation of Congress itself.
He's facing criminal charges in another jurisdiction. Anything he says in Committee will be used against him there.
That was my reaction as well.
When the federal government takes over all healthcare, there will be no such thing as medicine for long term conditions which.are fatal. The sooner the death the better.
Cost containment and a fix for social security solvency at the same time.
This guy will not be prosecuted. He will become the next HHS secretary.
As I recall, he managed a large hedge fund, and by ‘managed’ I mean he managed to lose millions of his investors’ dollars.
So he acquired rights to a drug whose patent had expired and jacked up the price many hundredfold. No one else was making the drug and he marketed it strictly through hospitals, not pharmacies, where he was able to extract the high prices he needed to get some money back to his ex-investors less they lynch him.
He was CEO of Turing pharmaceuticals but has been arrested for securities fraud and kicked out of that company.
He has a point and he is free to charge whatever he wants for his products.
They should have had the Sergeant of Arms arrest him and throw him in the House jail. And leave him there to think about his evil ways for awhile
He could learn a new game, it’s called “drop the soap”,
I bet that would give him a new respect for the Law.
“Testifying Before CONGRESS is NOT A CRIMINAL CASE!!”
Neither is talking to the police but if you say something incriminating, they WILL pounce on you. Nevertheless, this guy is pond scum and needs a severe beating for his smugness before another day passes.
Her Crime:
Lying to Congress
Yep. Congress is pretty contemptible.
Congress has only themselves to blame for the universal contempt Americans have for them, although this sniveling dweeb will eventually get his comeuppance. He is now a marked man.
“He was CEO of Turing pharmaceuticals but “
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Which he named after the controversial homosexual Alan Turing.
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