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Lawyer for Martin Shkreli Hikes Fees Five Thousand Per Cent - Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/lawyer-for-martin-shkreli-hikes-fees-five-thousand-per-centBROOKLYN (The Borowitz Report)—A criminal lawyer representing Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli has informed his client that he is raising his hourly legal fees by five thousand per cent, the lawyer has confirmed.
Minutes after Shkreli’s arrest on charges of securities fraud, the attorney, Harland Dorrinson, announced that he was hiking his fees from twelve hundred dollars an hour to sixty thousand dollars.
Shkreli, who reportedly received the news about the price hike while he was being fingerprinted, cried foul and accused his attorney of “outrageous and inhumane price gouging.”
“This is the behavior of a sociopath,” Shkreli was heard screaming.
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I mean if we want to advance the abilities of our lawyers for the next generation then we need to hike the fees so we can test out new technology and provide better lawyers for the advance kind of lawyering that future criminals might need. Else these lawyers might just not be able to fight the crimes they use to be able to fight.
Sounds the way Shkreli might sell it to us!
