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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by Alex3917 on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:11PM (#14933862)
> The only illegal thing he did was lie about it so that he could get them their money back.

You're missing the point; giving his investors 'their' money back was the thing he did that was unethical and illegal. If you're a fund manager and the value of your portfolio goes down after making bad bets, you can't just inject your own money into the fund to make it look like you have a positive track record so that you can solicit more outside funds.

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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by um_ya on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:47AM (#14934275)
You're grasping for ways to punish this guy because you don't like him. The fact is, he made a mistake and wanted to pay back the people he made a mistake with.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by RodericDay on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:01AM (#14941561)
I'd say it's exactly the opposite. The guy blatantly broke the law, but you seem to he very attached to him because you see him as some kind of noble do-gooder.
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