Posted on 05/19/2022 9:16:33 AM PDT by zeestephen
"Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison," Shkreli, 39, wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday, referring to his ban from Twitter...In a throwback to the days when Shkreli was one of the most prominent trolls on Twitter, a friend of his tweeted a photo of them together smiling in a car after his release, with the caption: "Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he's famous."
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His arrogance knows no bounds. Probably didn’t learn a thing in prison ‘cept how to do it better next time.
Typical CNBC Op-Ed editorializing in the headline. The 5 Ws are long dead.
Most ex-cons learn the craft of “not getting caught” while on the inside. Prison is a joke anymore. Bring back chain gangs and actual hard labor. There’s no deterrent to committing crime. Most people would live better lives in the prison system than at home.
I don’t remember exactly what it was they put him away for... but I remember he was the poster boy for pharma greed at the time. He bought a company that had a special drug and jacked the price from something like $2.50 to $750 a month. (I wondered why the original owners of the drug didn’t think about doing that).
He made himself a target by doing that at a time when Hillary! and others were on a political rampage against pharma pricing. Maybe he didn’t contribute to the right campaigns. Or made the wrong enemies on Wall Street. Bill Ackman was big financier and promoter of a company that is now Bausch Health that was doing the same thing. Buying up smaller pharmas and rolling them up and jacking the pricing. Trades under BHC now and under $20 a share but was as I recall $400 or something a share when Ackman was pumping it up (and they have loads of debt from all the acquisitions).
With his kind of money he was easily able to hire in-prison security for himself.
He claimed "no harm-no foul" in court, but he still got convicted on the charge.
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