As reported by bloomberg, Martin Shkreli, company entrepreneur, who rocketed to infamy by raising a life-saving pill from $13.50 to $750, was arrested by federal agents at his Manhattan home early Thursday morning on securities fraud related to a firm he founded.
Shkreli, 32, ignited a firestorm over drug prices in September and became a symbol of defiant greed. The federal case
against him has nothing to do with pharmaceutical costs, however.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn charged him with illegally taking stock from
Retrophin Inc., a biotechnology firm he started in 2011, and using it to
pay off debts from unrelated business dealings. He was later ousted from the company , where he’d been chief executive officer, and sued by its board.
In the case that closely tracks that suit, federal
prosecutors accused Shkreli of engaging in a complicated shell game
after his defunct hedge fund, MSMB Capital Management, lost millions. He
is alleged to have made secret payoffs and set up sham consulting
arrangements. A New York lawyer, Evan Greebel, was also arrested early
Thursday. He's accused of conspiring with Shkreli in part of the scheme.
Retrophin replaced Shkreli as CEO “because of serious
concerns about his conduct,” the company said in a statement. The
company, which hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing, has “fully
cooperated with the government investigations into Mr. Shkreli.”
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