Prosecutors oppose Martin Shkreli's coronavirus early release, call him 'delusional,' greedy

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CNBC News
Full headline: Prosecutors oppose Martin Shkreli's coronavirus early prison release bid, call him 'delusional,' greedy
PUBLISHED WED, APR 29 2020 12:54 PM EDT
Dan Mangan

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday called notorious pharmaceuticals industry fraudster Martin Shkreli "delusional" and greedy as they opposed his bid to win early release from prison to both avoid catching the coronavirus — and to work on a potential cure for it.

Those prosecutors poured scorn on Shkreli in a court filing that questioned whether he even has the scientific skills needed to develop a possible Covid-19 treatment if he were to be sprung to serve the remaining 40 months or so of his seven-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors cited a report on Shkreli filed this week by U.S. Probation officials.

"As Probation observed, Shkreli's 'belief that he can develop a cure for COVID-19, something that has so far eluded the best medical and scientific minds in the world working around the clock, is not only a practice in wild and completely unfounded speculation, but is indicative of the same kind of delusional self-aggrandizing behavior that underlies the defendant's conduct in the commission of the'" crimes that landed him in prison, prosecutors wrote.

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/04/29/martin-shkreli-coronavirus-prison-release-opposed-by-prosecutors.html

"Shkreli's 'belief that he can develop a cure for COVID-19..."

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1. He must think he's Jared