'Pharma Bro' wants out of prison to research coronavirus

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

‘Pharma Bro’ wants out of prison to research coronavirus

By TOM HAYS
April 7, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli, known as “Pharma Bro,” wants to get out of prison so he can help research a treatment for the coronavirus, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Defense attorney Ben Brafman said that he will file court papers asking federal authorities to release Shkreli for three months so he can do laboratory work “under strict supervision.”

His client — best known before his arrest for drug price-gouging and his snarky online persona — is housed at a low-security prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.

“I have always said that if focused and left in a lab, Martin could help cure cancer,” Brafman said in a statement. “Maybe he can help the scientific community better understand this terrible virus.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/d7209508da9d2edaa0bad6932611b4b0


FILE- In this Aug. 4, 2017 file photo, former pharmaceutical company CEO, Martin Shkreli, arrives at federal court in New York. The convicted former drug company wants out of prison so he can help research a treatment for the coronavirus. Shkreli's attorney said Tuesday, April 7, 2020, that he will be filing court papers asking federal authorities to release Shkreli for three months so he can do laboratory work “under strict supervision.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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If he get somebody on Faux to say nice things about him, he just might convince the Trumpers to spring him.

[Laffy Kat]

1. I sure hope 45 doesn't pardon him.

[Eugene]

4. I sure hope 45 doesn't hire him.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Yes, I could see them striking up a little deal.

I know I'm going to hell already, so I will come out and say this: I hope he contracts COVID in prison and that's all she wrote.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

9. That would seem to check a lot of boxes

for him, not the least of which being "owning the Libs."

[demtenjeep]

2. "WHAT THE FUCK"

SEE it works well

That unnamed sailor is my hero

[lapfog_1]

3. I'm sure there are plenty of virologists and epidemiologists

who aren't sociopathic assholes that need support and "a lab to work in by themselves".

[Journeyman]

5. He may not find a cure but I'm sure he can help the pharmaceutical companies set a price point . . .

a price point that is fair and equitable for all the corporate officers, investors, and assorted sleaze balls hoping to horn in on the profits.

Yeah. He should be granted a special consideration.

[badhair77]

15. This sums it up.

He’s no scientist.

[Sneederbunk]

6. We are much safer where you are.

[Laffy Kat]

10. Good one! nt

[Frustratedlady]

8. He'd probably even give a kickback to Trump!

No matter, we couldn't afford the meds, anyway. Cheaper to die.

[tanyev]

11. And he's already decided how much he's going to charge for it, too.

[niyad]

12. We don't need the smirking thie. Deranged demagogue has the cure, beautiful cures.

[Princess Turandot]

13. The judge might be surprised that she missed his having a science degree - any science degree...

Oh wait. He doesn't.

[JDC]

14. I am pleased to be reminded that he is STILL in prison.

[SharonAnn]

16. He has no education or experience to do this kind of research.

He’s a market manipulator, not a scientist.

[Hekate]

17. Rot where you are, Shrkeli. Just rot. nt