Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by hidenotslide on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:26PM
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His new investors made $10 million less than they would have if he had not stolen from them. Embezzlement is still a crime even if you are the CEO and the company is profitable. And there was a bunch of lying in securities disclosures of course, which is a crime by itself.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by s73v3r_ on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:44PM
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This man is not an entrepreneur, and to try and say so is to insult and demean actual entrepreneurs everywhere.
His investors got lucky that he had the funds to repay them due to his other company. Had he gotten away with this, he likely would have done it again, and those investors might not have been so lucky.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by swedish_mafia on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:23PM
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You can talk after you take a biotech company public.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by s73v3r_ on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:07PM
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No, I can talk now, based on the fact that I have not defrauded investors.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by rpearl on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:25PM
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no, we can talk about the fact that using fraud to fund legitimate activity isn't entrepreneurship, now.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by swedish_mafia on Saturday March 10, 2018 @06:49PM
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You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.
Re:Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
by rpearl on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:41PM
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So he lied in order to start the company in the first place and managed to exploit the lie into a profit.
This is still fraud. The fact that it paid off isn't relevant to the fact that it's fraud.
He is sentenced not for drug prices but for this: he started a hedge fund which lost money, used some of the funds to start a pharma co, the pharma co did well went public and he returned the investors their money at a huge profit for them.
Who sufffered? No one.
But he misrepresented his funds performance and did not inform them of the pharma co investment.
This man is an entrepreneur.