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(15,740 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:42 AM Mar 2018

'Pharma Bro' asks judge for leniency, saying he was a fool [View all]

Source: AP

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli admitted that he was "very far from blameless" in a letter to a judge asking for leniency, according to court filings.

"I was wrong, I was a fool. I should have known better," Shkreli wrote in his letter to Brooklyn federal court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto.

"I accept the fact that I made serious mistakes, but I still believe that I am a good person with much potential," Shkreli said.

The brash former pharmaceuticals company CEO was convicted in August of cheating investors in two failed hedge funds. He remains in jail and faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced March 9.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/pharma-bro-asks-judge-leniency-saying-fool-014259513--finance.html

Boo hoo hoo. Poor little asshole snowflake.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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'Pharma Bro' asks judge for leniency, saying he was a fool [View all] Zorro Mar 2018 OP

Maybe he's getting a job with Turbineguy Mar 2018 #1

To have a "come to Jesus" moment, one needs to safeinOhio Mar 2018 #2

He's not a fool. He is pure evil. mucifer Mar 2018 #3

Their respective crimes are hardly commensurate. SomethingNew Mar 2018 #26

People probably died because they couldn't afford epi pens that were cheap before mucifer Mar 2018 #32

That wasn't Shkreli. SomethingNew Mar 2018 #33

Shkreli is responsible for Daraprim, not epi pens jmowreader Mar 2018 #34

Pity the Fool jpak Mar 2018 #4

Absolutely... Maxheader Mar 2018 #21

If he has so much potential he can realize it in prison. He can teach reading or type legal... marble falls Mar 2018 #5

When Martha Stewart ended up in prison for "lying to investegators" about "insider trading". haele Mar 2018 #22

The way she handled the whole thing is what finally made me respect her, a lot. marble falls Mar 2018 #23

Give him a job on a road crew bucolic_frolic Mar 2018 #6

Lock him up! lark Mar 2018 #7

If they let him out of jail Mr.Bill Mar 2018 #8

I gotta give him this: he was half right: DFW Mar 2018 #9

I'm pretty sure he killed people for money. People couldn't get life saving meds mucifer Mar 2018 #10

Martin...if you're sincere (HA!) Liberalagogo Mar 2018 #11

Good person not possible, good convict possible Hortensis Mar 2018 #12

Pretty half-assed apology hueymahl Mar 2018 #13

I'm touched by his apology. The judge should should take 3 days off of his 20 year sentence. FSogol Mar 2018 #14

Let's be nice and take a whole year off. Iggo Mar 2018 #30

This guy hasn't even been sentenced yet, and he's already begging for mercy? FakeNoose Mar 2018 #15

Anyone else think he is a "good person"? TNNurse Mar 2018 #16

Even if he hadn't broken the law, he doesn't have the capacity to be a "good person" jmowreader Mar 2018 #35

psychopaths are funny like that. Javaman Mar 2018 #17

Let's hope the judge is no fool. n/t malthaussen Mar 2018 #18

too bad that judge can't raise that sentence about 3X the current going rate rurallib Mar 2018 #19

He could, but he won't. Weed Man Mar 2018 #24

No. No. No. Iggo Mar 2018 #20

This is one guy who has to get the max. Vinca Mar 2018 #25

Too late for apologies and begging for mercy WhiteTara Mar 2018 #27

Fuck Shkreli! EarthFirst Mar 2018 #28

RELEASE THE HOUNDS. bullwinkle428 Mar 2018 #29

no. you were a greedy asshole. STFU. pansypoo53219 Mar 2018 #31