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re: FBI arrests CEO who increased drug price 5500%

Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:12 am to
Posted by Iron Lion
Romulus
Member since Nov 2014
13768 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:12 am to
When poor people get fricked nobody cares. When rich people get fricked the FBI puts somebody in prison.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
21698 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:18 am to
Any lawyer representing him should jack up their hourly rates to astronomical rates.

I mean they have stakeholders to look out for too.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
91362 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:21 am to
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I think you are missing a zero





Thanks!
Posted by GaryMyMan
Shreveport
Member since May 2007
13499 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:21 am to
He got rich by shorting stocks and then shite-talking the companies online. It's not rocket science.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
179725 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:27 am to
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He got rich by shorting stocks and then shite-talking the companies online. It's not rocket science.





Yea but in order to move prices by shite talking people have to take your word on it. If you or I did this no one would listen.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
179725 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:29 am to
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If he had not raised the prices, then acted like a pompous jackass afterwards, nobody would have ever gone after him for anything.



Again, this is has been going on for a few years now and was under investigation well before the price increase.

Basically, this guy has been a shitstain for years.
Posted by sullivanct19a
Florida
Member since Oct 2015
5239 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:38 am to
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this guy has been a shitstain for years.


seems about right
Posted by baybeefeetz
Member since Sep 2009
32606 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:42 am to
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When poor people get fricked nobody cares. When rich people get fricked the FBI puts somebody in prison.


Examples of the poor?
Posted by monsterballads
Gulf of America
Member since Jun 2013
31166 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:42 am to
pharma karma
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:42 am to
I just hope he gets aids in prison.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37774 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:46 am to
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Basically, this guy has been a shitstain for years.




all the more sweet to see this happening to him.
Posted by Layabout
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2011
11082 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 8:47 am to
Schadenfreude, how sweet it is.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37780 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:50 am to
Didn't see this before,
quote:

Retrophin also digs up allegations from 2014 that claim Shkreli tried to intimidate a former MSMB employee, telling his wife in a letter that "I hope to see you and your four children homeless and will do whatever I can to assure this," and reaching out to the ex-worker's teenage sons on Facebook to say their father "betrayed" and "stole $3 million from me."

Ha, what a scumbag.
Posted by wutangfinancial
Treasure Valley
Member since Sep 2015
11869 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:55 am to
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Specifically, the SEC alleged that he misappropriated about $120,000 in investor funds from MSMB; lied about the fund's performance, assets under management, and retention of an independent auditor and administrator; misrepresented a naked short to a broker; and misappropriated about $900,000 of investor funds from MSMB Healthcare to fund an arbitration settlement tied to the firm's failure to settle short sales.


He should have diversified his bonds, yo
Posted by wutangfinancial
Treasure Valley
Member since Sep 2015
11869 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:58 am to
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He got rich by shorting stocks and then shite-talking the companies online. It's not rocket science.


How is this different than what ackman, icahn or the CEO of citron research do?
Posted by Rickety Cricket
Premium Member
Member since Aug 2007
46883 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:00 am to
Once he was ousted from Retrophin and they entered into civil litigation, it was inevitable that the SEC would start digging around.

ETA: they arrested his attorney too. Shkreli is fricked.
This post was edited on 12/17/15 at 11:04 am
Posted by usc6158
Member since Feb 2008
38622 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:19 am to
Going to be some hot new Wu Tang tracks bumping at the Hoover Building today
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
179725 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 12:31 pm to



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Authorities outlined years of investment losses and lies Shkreli allegedly told his investors almost from the moment he began managing money. By age 26, they said, he got nine investors to place $3 million with him, began losing their money and covering it up. Within a year, his fund's account was down to $331.

Shkreli attracted another $2.35 million investment in 2010 and lost about half of that in two months, the authorities said. As the hole grew, he covered it up with scheme after scheme, telling investors that his returns were as high as 35.8 percent when he was down 18 percent. He used client money to pay for his clothing, food and medical expenses and lied to the broker handling his fund's accounts, authorities said.


Dude turned $3 million into $331

LINK
This post was edited on 12/17/15 at 12:33 pm
Posted by BigSquirrel
Member since Jul 2013
1880 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 12:41 pm to
Does he drive a tiger striped Lamborgina?
Posted by CtotheVrzrbck
WeWaCo
Member since Dec 2007
37538 posts
Posted on 12/17/15 at 12:42 pm to
The only impressive thing about this dude is his ability to sucker his dad's friends into staking him.
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