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TYT: Price Gouging CEO Martin Shkreli Arrested
Martin Shkreli has been arrested for securities fraud, he is looking at serious jail time. Turns out price gouging wasn't his only unethical business practice. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss Shkreli's alleged crimes. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
Read more here: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/
"Martin Shkreli, a boastful pharmaceutical executive who came under withering criticism for price gouging vital drugs, denied securities fraud charges on Thursday following an early morning arrest, and was freed on a $5 million bond.
While the 32-year-old has earned a rare level of infamy for his brazenness in business and his personal life, what he was charged with had nothing to do with skyrocketing drug prices. He is accused of repeatedly losing money for investors and lying to them about it, illegally taking assets from one of his companies to pay off debtors in another.
“Shkreli essentially ran his company like a Ponzi scheme where he used each subsequent company to pay off defrauded investors from the prior company,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said at a press conference."
