Martin Shkreli sounded uncharacteristically contrite in the letter he wrote to the judge last week, shortly before his sentencing. Prosecutors had asked for Shkreli – dubbed the “Pharma Bro” – to be given 15 years in prison. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martin Shkreli, left, is shown seated next to his lawyer Ben Brafman in federal court in New York in this courtroom sketch. The price in the US was already far higher ($13.50) when Shkreli bought the company in 2015, but overnight Turing hiked the price of Daraprim to $750, a fiftyfold increase. But while other price hikes have roiled the media, Shkreli remained the poster boy for pharma excess and seemingly revelled in it.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2018 06:00 UTC