Martin Shkreli’s arrest generates the rush you get when aCorvette passes you on the freeway doing 100 mph, and then 10 milesdown the road you pass the Corvette owner pulled over by a cop.
|“Ah,” you say, “there is occasional justice in life!”
|Read: Senators blast pharma executives for pricehikes
|Shkreli is the guy who runs the drug maker Turing.
|He ordered the price of a specialty drug that fights cancer andHIV to be raised from $13.50 to $750 a pill this fall, setting offa firestorm of denunciations. To whichhe basically thumbed his nose by promising to lower the cost to areasonable level, and then not doing it.
|Among those to whom he gave the Bronx cheer was Hillary Clinton. Probably not a goodidea, Marty.
|The feds showed up at his house today, according to myriad newsreports, and arrested him for securities fraud. Now, the guy whowas branded “most hated man in America” for jacking up the pricewill need the dough for lawyers.
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