Shkreli perp walk!!!

[KansDem]

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[mgmaggiemg]

1. thumbs up for arresting this guy....;)

cheers, Maggie

[ChisolmTrailDem]

2. Pharma karma! nt

[KansDem]

5. "Pharma karma"

Good one!

[smirkymonkey]

13. OOh! I love that! Pharma Karma!

Very clever!

[3catwoman3]

6. Brilliant...

...riposte! And likely thread winner. And DUzy! A triple header in just 2 words.

[NightWatcher]

3. I hope he spends a few years living in total horror

See, no rape jokes here.

[randys1]

4. HIs attorney raised his hourly rate from $500 an hour to $50,000 an hour.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Lawyer for Martin Shkreli Hikes Fees Five Thousand Per Cent

Lawyer for Martin Shkreli Hikes Fees Five Thousand Per Cent
By Andy Borowitz

BROOKLYN (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.

For his part, Shkreli’s lawyer was unmoved by his client’s complaint. “Compared to what he pays for an hour of Wu-Tang Clan, sixty thou is a bargain,” he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/lawyer-for-martin-shkreli-hikes-fees-five-thousand-per-cent

[Myrina]

14. Borowitz = satire

But you knew that, right?

[Brother Buzz]

16. I'm invoking Poe's law

[randys1]

19. I figured it was satire, but it is funny

[Brother Buzz]

20. To be a fly on the wall in Borowitz's office for a day.....

is on my bucket list

[malaise]

32. Now that would be Karma

Borowitz is the best!

[smirkymonkey]

48. I love Andy Borowitz!

If only it was true!

[jehop61]

7. When you thumb your nose at the government

they'll get you eventually . Ha!

[Myrina]

15. Just disappointing that he's arrested for ripping off the 1%, like Madoff.

Ripping off poor and vulnerable people doesn't get you arrested these days.

[3auld6phart]

37. Myrina

He's getting nailed for the Ponzi, not the Pharma bs. You are right Myrina.
He will skate if it was the lower class pee-ons he ripped off. Maybe gaol time if he did a Bernie Madoff. You know,his betters.He has to be convicted and found guilty. Horrible slimy,smirking piece of ..???

[cemaphonic]

40. On the other hand he'll probably actually do time and get soaked this way.

Getting the SEC and a swarm of angry rich investors on your butt is one of the few areas in American justice where being wealthy doesn't let you buy yourself out of trouble.

[BowlLikeAChicken]

26. Yeah,

like Cliven Bundy

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. ..

[BuelahWitch]

9. He can't resist the camera

Notice the other man was looking away or putting his head down, the brat stared ahead and then right at the camera after they got him into the car. No fear, no remorse.

[passiveporcupine]

24. His ego is probably what brought him down

Instead of trying to hide from the public eye, while sorting out his past problems, he deliberately sought it.

[lapislzi]

11. Who'd have thought that this little shitstain could unite the nation

There is nobody--NOBODY--who is not thrilled about this douchecanoe's comeuppance.

I wish him a long and uncomfortable prison stay, accompanied by Yoko Ono/Alvin and the Chipmunks mashups played at crushing volume 24/7.

[longship]

18. Alternating with Mahna Mahna

A few weeks of that would send anybody to Mahna Mahna Land permanently.

I love it. But 24 hours a day for weeks would toast anybody's brain.

on edit: Damnit, I meant the original, from Sesame Street!

[napkinz]

34. another version (Jim Henson makes an appearance) ...

[Oilwellian]

12. This made my year!

You should put the little shit stain's name in the title.

[KansDem]

23. Done!

Thanks for the suggestion!

[Oilwellian]

39. I see you made the front page!

Looking good!

[KansDem]

47. I'm giddy with excitement!

Perhaps I have a future in front pagery!

[valerief]

17. Well, there goes Trump's VP choice! nt

[Nye Bevan]

22. Even Trump can't stand him.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-martin-shkreli-daraprim-drug-cost-2015-9

Shitstain Shkreli has truly, truly united this country.

[passiveporcupine]

27. OK, that made me laugh out loud!

[smirkymonkey]

49. You would think he would admire that kind of nerve, but no, Trump

actually wants to come down on these types. From the above article:

"That guy is nothing. He's zero. He's nothing. He ought to be ashamed of himself," Trump said.

Trump noted that he has put hedge funders in his crosshairs. He has said "hedge fund guys are getting away with murder," and he has suggested he would hike taxes on hedge fund managers by eliminating the so-called carried interest loophole in the tax code if he were elected president.

"And he's a hedge fund guy, who, as you know — the only one that I'm raising taxes on. They are going to be paying up," Trump said Wednesday.

"But I thought it was a disgusting thing, what he did," he added. "I thought it was a disgrace."

[Sam_Fields]

21. Martian's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

I'm sure there are other crimes that haven't been exposed yet. Hiking the price of an NOT patented product is not very smart in the first place.

[suffragette]

25. Fraud and lying

That looks to be his M.O. in everything he does.

[passiveporcupine]

28. true marks of a sociopath

But you could tell from his smirk that he was a sociopath.

[suffragette]

29. Yet he still had defenders on DU

[passiveporcupine]

30. I missed that

and I think I'm glad I did.

[suffragette]

33. Here's my response to one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7388908

[passiveporcupine]

35. And now we know that he was just trying to find new ways to maintain his ponzi schemes

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they were collapsing like a house of cards so he kept having to shuffle the deck to find new schemes to pay off the old investors who were chasing him.

Whoops...it all caught up with him.

Unfortunately, it still leaves this medication in limbo and a price too high to pay even for insurance companies and hospitals, which will raise everyone's insurance costs.

[suffragette]

36. Great points

He never meant to lower the price, only to profit off of other people's misery.

Ironically, he has made a strong case for regulation targeting pharmaceutical profiteering by being so greedy he exposed the practice.

[Calista241]

31. Now that's karma.

Suck it Martin Shkreli!

[cindyperry]

38. Could not have

Happened to a more deserving a hole

[cemaphonic]

41. The best part of the arrest...

(well, besides that obnoxious con-artist getting arrested in the first place)

is that the FBI took the time to tweet that they didn't have the chance to seize the Wu Tang album (yet?)

[VA_Jill]

42. And you KNOW that karma's really gotta bite

when you get busted on national TV wearing a $19 hoodie! Seriously, folks....! Cargo Mens Full Zip Hoodie - Men's - Apparel - Modells.com And it was on sale for $15 that day!

[11 Bravo]

43. If that little fuckwad isn't the poster child for backpfeifengesicht ...

then I'd like to know who is.

[liberalnarb]

44. WOOHOO

Now go back and arrest the rest of wall street!

[KansDem]

45. "Now go back and arrest the rest of wall street!"

I'll join you!

[bdwker]

46. Hope he enjoys his time in prison.

And wipe that smirk off his face.