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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by nickthemagicman on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:42PM (#15091651)
He's the poster boy for dysfunctional capitalism. He got busted profiteering off of dying people. Lot's of people are sick and sociopathic to the core like him buy he is the one who had the flashlight pointed at his particular roach nest. Instead of trying to be better a better person, he and the other dysfunctional capitalists are trying to punish the people holding them accountable. Classic despotic strategy.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:39PM (#15092230)
My understanding is that he got busted illegally using money from one of his businesses to prop up another one of his businesses.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by shlorn on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:03PM (#15092478)
He was actually found not guilty of that charge. The charges he was found guilty related to him lying to investors when he lost their money in a hedge fund he operated. According to the jury, he felt bad about this and made them whole by paying them back in stock. All said and done--everyone made money, including some his accusers who made 10x their original investment.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by nickthemagicman on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:46PM (#15095532)
Did we forget that he jacked the price of Daraprim up from 13$ to 750$?
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by pavel_lishin on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:00AM (#15098452)
Nobody's saying he's not an asshole, but he wasn't convicted of being an asshole or of raising drug prices.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by nickthemagicman on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:45PM (#15095526)
That wasn't what I was referring to. I was referring to when he jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug from $13 dollars to $750 dollars to increase profits...

Thats profiteering not profiting...

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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by pavel_lishin on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:02AM (#15098468)
I guess I'm not sure what "getting busted" means, then.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by wyck on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:13PM (#15092554)
Nothing of what you said is actually true, in fact it sounds exactly like what most journalists say about Shkreli, and the reason why he hates them.
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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by nickthemagicman on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:44PM (#15095521)
He jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug to make his shareholders profits?

Thats called profiteering, not profiting.

How is that not psychopathic?

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Re:Martin Shkreli is buying websites associated with the nam... by wyck on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:04PM (#15156660)
He jacked up the price for insurance companies, individuals paid 1$ if they have no insurance. He considered it a robber baron technique to get funding for new drug research to charge the insurance companies, whom have lots of $$ for PR firms to twist the narrative in the MSM, big pharma is a thing. If you think he some sort of evil villain you've eaten the PR.
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