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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by Barrin92 on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:11PM (#14931157)
"but he had a nice twitch stream" is just about the most absurd defense of someone involved in large scale corporate fraud I have witnessed in a long time
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by hitekker on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:35PM (#14933249)
When the defense gets absurd, I go looking for the defender's agenda.

In this case, the original commenter wants to tar all centralized institutions as corrupt (congress, news, etc). His strategy is to paint Shrekli in the best possible light, to make him a martyr for the cause.

He even paints Shrekli as another Snowden:

> It exposes it. Not quite as monumental, but a Snowden moment. Remember, congress did squat about the price gouging, because that's what they get paid to do.

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by FireBeyond on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:11PM (#14933424)
Right. Ted Bundy was the picture of charisma, and charm, personality.
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