Have you ever wanted to smack someone more than this guy?

[Nye Bevan]

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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) told Shkreli he was tired of “drug company executives are lining their pockets at the expense of some of the most vulnerable families in our nation.”

When Shkreil fashioned a nervous smile-cum-smirk and looked away, Cumming seemed to go off script. “It’s not funny, Mr. Shkreli. People are dying and they’re getting sicker and sicker.”

http://nypost.com/2016/02/04/smirky-martin-shkreli-silent-as-lawmakers-rip-him/

Earlier this fall, I got a call from a specialty pharmacy in Michigan. My insurance would no longer cover the cost of Daraprim, a vital medicine in my Lyme disease treatment. They said the drugs would cost me $30,000.

“Thirty thousand dollars a year?” I asked, flabbergasted.

“No, $30,000 a month,” they responded.

To make matters worse, Martin Shkreli — a bombastic pharmaceutical honcho who recently paid $2 million for an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album — was the man behind the life-saving drug’s ridiculous price hike.

http://nypost.com/2016/02/02/i-was-a-victim-of-the-pharma-jackass/

Enjoy prison, asshole.

[bigwillq]

1. Yes (nt)

[yeoman6987]

2. Ted Cruz would make this guy look like a Boy Scout.

But glad he is going to pay for his criminal actions.

[Blanks]

4. When I saw the thread title...

I was expecting to see Cruz.

[yeoman6987]

10. He earns it

[hifiguy]

17. Agreed. Cruz is the poster weasel for

Backpfeifengesicht.

[MuseRider]

3. I will add him to the list

but he would be among the top 5.

[2naSalit]

13. Same here...

sadly there are just so many to choose from now-a-days.

[world wide wally]

5. He looks a lot like Rubio

[Uben]

6. Like I stated in another thread on the subject......

...the judge setting this screwball's bail should have multiplied by the same amount this bastard increased the price of the drug so he could understand how it feels to have your life suddenly be out of reach.....say $700 million.

But judge, I aint got that much money! Yeah, you little weenie bastard, neither do the people suffering from lime disease, but you were content to sentence them to live without it as well! I have no mercy for Shkreli...let him rot in prison for eternity.

[Rex]

7. Yes, Jamie Dimon helped put countless families out onto the streets. Yet how is he not as bad as

this guy? We lambast this asshole, yet the archtects of the 2008 economic meltdown hurt just as many families and yet they don't even get an honorable mention.

Actually there is someone I would like to smack more;

[JustAnotherGen]

8. No - I wouldn't smack someone

Unless they were physically attacking me.

In this case - the system is taking care of his vile behavior.

[Eugene]

9. Shkreli is back on Twitter. This is one arrogant a**hole.

Source: USA Today

'It's not funny, Mr. Shkreli': Drug exec grins before Congress

Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY 11:25 a.m. EST February 4, 2016

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The boyish-faced Shkreli sat quietly at the witness table, clasping his hands tightly and slowly rubbing his fingers together as he was lectured. He smirked several times and appeared on the verge of laughter at one point when Cummings was speaking.

After the hearing, he removed any doubt about his feelings.

"Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government," Shkreli said on Twitter, where he proceeded to retweet several users who posted supportive messages.

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/02/04/martin-shkreli-congressional-testimony-turing-pharmaceuticals-valeant-fda-drug-prices/79808004/

[Rex]

14. Wow, he acts like he is in the club...what a clueless idiot.

He won't be smirking behind bars. The way he acts, one would think he is in the club of 'too big to jail'. Not even.

[2naSalit]

16. He's probably

got some of the best pharma grade feel-goods that few have access to... I am pretty sure W was on something a good part of the time he was in office.

[Whiskeytide]

31. "several users who posted supportive messages"?? ...

... Really? REALLY!!!? WTF is wrong with people?

[hifiguy]

32. Doubtless they are Wall Street shitheels

who wish they'd thought of his scam first. Goldman is full of them and that's only one of the financial sewers.

[Whiskeytide]

34. I'm sure you're right, but it is...

... demonstrative of the size and thickness of their bubble that they are not aware that being seen supporting him reveals what assholes THEY are. What has happened in this country when people don't have the good sense anymore to recognize their shitty thoughts and keep them to themselves?

Internet anonymity, I guess.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

11. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, David and Charles Koch, Jamie Dimon, The Walton Heirs...

Shkreli is on the list, but my list is pretty long.

[steve2470]

12. if there is a hell, this guy is going to be elbowing people aside to get to the head of the line

Note I said IF. He's a huge asshole. Anyone know if that's his girlfriend or wife next to him ? I think his lawyer is a man.

eta: Nancy Retzlaff, Turing's chief commercial officer

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/04/465548279/no-comment-from-grinning-martin-shkreli-at-house-hearing-on-drug-prices

[KentuckyWoman]

15. "Enjoy prison, asshole."

Yeah, that locked down country club he'll end up in will really teach him a lesson.......




Sorry OP.... not disgusted at you..... just at the system that rewards these fuckers.

[Nye Bevan]

21. Not really "country clubs" anymore.

Prisons for white-collar criminals have lost many of the cushy perks that earned them the nickname “Club Fed” in the 1970s. The prisoners have become rougher, too.

If you’re going to prison, federal prison camps are the best option by far, reports Luke Mullins in The American, a magazine put out by pro-business think tank American Enterprise Institute. They tend to have open grounds, army-style barracks rather than cells and give prisoners free time to exercise and read. Their security is as minimal as the name minimal-security prison implies. (Alfred A. Porro Jr., who left prison in 2004 after five years at two facilities, said inmates used to sneak out of a Pennsylvania prison at night to retrieve food packages that relatives had stashed nearby.)

But as sentences for white-collar crime increase, lifestyles at white-collar prisons now roughly match those in higher-security facilities. Mark Morze, who spent five years in federal prison for his role in the ZZZZ Best Co. scam in the 1980s, says corrections officers in Lompoc, in California, would wistfully remember the days when Watergate conspirators were imprisoned there. They could order chili from a nearby Beverly Hills restaurant, played rounds of golf at a neighboring course, and some even sneaked out for meetings with prostitutes in the parking lot.

Those days are gone. Inmates at most prison camps no longer get weekend-long furloughs and must wear prison uniforms rather than their own clothes. How much inmates can spend at the prison store is limited, and they must work inside the walls instead of out in the community as before.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-IB-492

[qwlauren35]

22. I hear you.

I'd like to see him go to a maximum security prison, myself.

[2naSalit]

18. Geeze...

Where's Jack Ruby at a time like this?

I'm trying to be civil here... I'll self delete if anyone is offended.

2na

[Nay]

30. You read my mind. nt

[Deuce]

19. Backpfeifengesicht...

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. He is just awful.

But he must also be pretty dumb to act like that. He makes people hate him so much they will stop at nothing to see him end up in jail.

[smirkymonkey]

23. He is disgusting beyond belief.

How do people get to be so horrible? Are they just born soulless?

[packman]

24. I looked up the med you need - Daraprim

While it is true that this asshole did raise the price of daraprim, isn't it now available at a reasonable price? Hell, fly to India - the article I read stated that a pill of it sells for 20 cents. Even in England the price is low. But, supposedly, it is now being made at a very reasonable cost in the U.S.

"On October 22, 2015, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced it has made available compounded and customizable formulations of Pyrimethamine (trade name Daraprim) and leucovorin in oral capsules starting as low as $99.00 for a 100 count bottle in the United States"




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine

[csziggy]

25. He's probably doing more to ensure laws regulating drugs prices will be passed

Than any number of petitions and appeals to reason will. He cannot have just pissed off Rep. Cummings but every Congress critter on that committee and everyone who watched Shkrelli's performance.

So keep it up Martin Shkrelli - you will probably be best remembered for being the single biggest influence in getting drug pricing regulations put into place!

[Nye Bevan]

28. Excellent point.

And he provides a 1-word retort to anyone who claims that legislation of drug prices is not necessary.

[Warpy]

26. I'd rather sic another weasel onto him and make him poor

and I mean really poor, park bench with garbage can newspaper over him poor. Sick and unable to afford even aspirin poor. Nobody will admit to ever knowing him or doing deals with him poor.

A few years of being bludgeoned by poverty is the only hope that smug sack of shit has of turning human.

[hifiguy]

33. Dubai needs slaves to build their

World Cup stadiums. Send him there.

[Bjornsdotter]

27. He's #3 for me

Only because Cheney is still #1 and Bill Cosby is #2.

But yes, I'd love to give him a smack.