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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Pharma bro' Shkreli barred from discussing trial around courthouse
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS | Wed Jul 5, 2017 | 12:53pm EDT
'Pharma bro' Shkreli barred from discussing trial around courthouse
By Brendan Pierson
A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered Martin Shkreli to stop talking about his fraud case in or around the Brooklyn courthouse where he is standing trial, five days after the former drug company executive burst into a room full of spectators and attacked the credibility of a government witness.
U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto's order did not bar Shkreli from making any public statements about the case, as prosecutors had requested in a motion filed Monday, according to John Marzulli, a spokesman for the prosecutors.
Shkreli, 34, gained notoriety in 2015 when he raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, sparking outrage among patients and U.S. lawmakers and earning him the nickname "pharma bro."
The charges he now faces stem not from his time at Turing, but from his management of hedge funds MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare and of pharmaceutical company Retrophin Inc between 2009 and 2014.
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'Pharma bro' Shkreli barred from discussing trial around courthouse
By Brendan Pierson
A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered Martin Shkreli to stop talking about his fraud case in or around the Brooklyn courthouse where he is standing trial, five days after the former drug company executive burst into a room full of spectators and attacked the credibility of a government witness.
U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto's order did not bar Shkreli from making any public statements about the case, as prosecutors had requested in a motion filed Monday, according to John Marzulli, a spokesman for the prosecutors.
Shkreli, 34, gained notoriety in 2015 when he raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, sparking outrage among patients and U.S. lawmakers and earning him the nickname "pharma bro."
The charges he now faces stem not from his time at Turing, but from his management of hedge funds MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare and of pharmaceutical company Retrophin Inc between 2009 and 2014.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli-idUSKBN19Q2DJ
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'Pharma bro' Shkreli barred from discussing trial around courthouse (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2017
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BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)1. His own lawyer can't get him to shut up.
Last edited Wed Jul 5, 2017, 08:05 PM - Edit history (1)
It reminds me of the Donald not being able to stop twitter use.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. He's a smug punk
And needs to be treated as such.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)3. He's got a face only a shovel could love. nt
underpants
(182,904 posts)5. Stealing this
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)6. Please, do! nt
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)4. His name sounds like you are clearing your throat.