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And Today's "Just How Messed Up IS American Capitalism? AWARD" Goes To...
Martin Shkreli. (Again.)
Shkreli was arrested yesterday by the FBI. NOT for cornering the market on a lifesaving drug, and then squeezing the people who need it to survive for every penny they've got by jacking up its price by 7000%. But for securities fraud, related to shell games with the profits from his former hedge fund.
What's so amazing about that? The fact that ONLY THE SECOND of those two things is actually ILLEGAL!
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/
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only the 2nd of those is illegal, but sometimes ya, take what you can get......