FTC says pharma no to "Pharma Bro"
Regulators claim the former drug executive, who served four years in prison for fraud, is violating lifetime industry ban.
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Regulators claim the former drug executive, who served four years in prison for fraud, is violating lifetime industry ban.
Federal health officials are warning people in newly-hard hit COVID areas to consider masking up in indoor public places. About a-third of the U.S. population lives in areas considered at higher risk - mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has been released from prison early. And “The Greatest Show on Earth” plans a comeback next year – but without animal performers. Ringling Brothers went dark in 2017.
Former pharmaceutical exec, who was sentenced to a seven-year term in 2018, will face either home confinement or a halfway house.
The so-called "Pharma Bro" is banned for life from participating in the pharmaceutical industry.
Proceeds for the sale will go towards Shkreli's court-ordered fines and payments.
Shkreli claimed that mental health issues have weakened his immune system and made him more susceptible to contracting the coronavirus.
The "Pharma Bro" had asked to be released on a three-month furlough to research a coronavirus treatment.
Disgraced pharmaceutical executive believes he's uniquely positioned to fight the coronavirus disease.
FTC accuses imprisoned executive and a pharmaceutical firm of scheme to control jacked-up price of toxoplasmosis drug.
"Pharma Bro" Shkreli filed the lawsuit from prison, where he's serving a 7-year sentence for lying to investors
Federal investigators had been probing whether the so-called "Pharma Bro" was using a contraband cellphone behind bars
The fallen pharmaceutical executive is allegedly still controlling his company from his prison bunk in a New Jersey federal prison
The former pharmaceutical CEO will be housed at a New Jersey prison without bars, towers or locks on rooms
Rap aficionados might be able to bid for two unreleased, collectible albums
"You disgust me," the former pharmaceutical executive wrote in an October letter from his Brooklyn jailhouse. He addressed it to "Steve Dorsey, a Jerk"
Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for cheating investors, but it was his role as outspoken CEO that may have made a bigger impact
Former pharmaceutical executive cried in a Brooklyn court and apologized, saying he's solely to blame for his mistakes
Martin Shkreli is facing his day of reckoning on Friday, when a judge will hand down his sentencing for fraud
Assets to be handed over if Shkreli can't pay include trading account and rare Wu-Tang Clan album
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Facing up to 20 years for fraud, the usually brash former drug company exec turns to begging for mercy
Court says former pharmaceutical executive convicted of securities fraud is on the hook for millions of dollars
Evan Greebel was charged with helping drug company exec Martin Shkreli steal millions of dollars and then cover up the fraud
Prosecutors are demanding millions of dollars that the former drugmaker CEO allegedly obtained as a result of fraud
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