BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Convicted for fraud, Martin Shkreli’s request to be freed from prison for three months to research a coronavirus cure was blasted by federal prosecutors as the “same kind of delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that got him a lengthy sentence in the first place.
U.S. attorneys filed a motion asking a judge in the Eastern District of New York to reject the compassionate-release request by the so-called Pharma Bro.
A privately held startup, Turing sparked controversy earlier after news reports that it had raised the price of Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a 62-year-old drug used for protozoal infections, to $750 a tablet from $13.50 after acquiring it.
Shkreli has no formal scientific training and no experience working [in] a laboratory setting. But he said he would be able to assist the company who finds a cure, on how to jack up the cost high enough to maximize profits, and avoid suspicions from federal prosecutors.