'Pharma Bro' wants out of prison to research coronavirus

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Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Convicted former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli, known as “Pharma Bro,” wants to get out of prison so he can help research a treatment for the coronavirus, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Defense attorney Ben Brafman said that he will file court papers asking federal authorities to release Shkreli for three months so he can do laboratory work “under strict supervision.”

His client — best known before his arrest for drug price-gouging and his snarky online persona — is housed at a low-security prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.

“I have always said that if focused and left in a lab, Martin could help cure cancer,” Brafman said in a statement. “Maybe he can help the scientific community better understand this terrible virus.”

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[Drum]

1. Like moths to a flame

[EllieBC]

2. HahahahahahaaNO.

Get back in there. And give up the Wu Tang!

[OldManTarHeel]

3. LOL . . . No Effing Way Martin

Sit your effing arse in prison and just STFU you POS.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yes, I'm sure his lawyer is a qualified handicapper on biotechnology expertise for clients

in prison. I mean, seriously, this is like having your mom write your report card.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Grifter sez: "Judge let me out of fed prison so I can grift some more. I can save everyone, honest."

[47of74]

6. Pharma Bro should go Phfuck Himself

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. 🤣🤣🤣 Three rolly-laughy icons for that post

[Grokenstein]

7. No, BUT

if Marty wants to volunteer to be a vaccine test subject, I'm down with that.

“I have always said that if focused and left in a lab, Martin could help cure cancer,”

Super cool story, bro, but needs more orcs and wizards.

[customerserviceguy]

20. Sure, but

put his sorry ass in the control group.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Research on how to raise the profit margin.

Research on how to raise the profit margin.

[paleotn]

10. Uh.....no.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Did AP buy out the Onion?

There's not a hole deep enough to put this brat in to bury his ego.......

[Lord Ludd]

24. The Onion's really gonna have to raise their game. nt

[ToxMarz]

12. I thought his expertise was manipulating patent law, price gouging and other financial misdeeds

not medical research or anything sciency

[rpannier]

13. under strict supervision

He probably wants the Epstein supervision
The grifter needs to go nowhere
Though, if he wants out, I'd be okay with it. From his minimum security prison (where, I recall, he was caught with contraband cellphone) and moved to a medium security prison

[Mr.Bill]

14. Most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. n/t

[Rural_Progressive]

15. Oh gosh, this is fun to type

Bite me Bro

[oldsoftie]

16. he's NOT a damn researcher. Or a doctor. Or anything else medical related.

Break his fuckin legs

[C Moon]

34. +1

[packman]

17. Just imagine - Al Capone wants out of prison

to help the Chicago police curb crime

or:

Aldof Hitler wants the allies to stop bombing
so the Nazis could study the effects of warfare on the German people

or:

The captain of the Titanic wanted to postpone sailing
So he could study the affect of ice vs. steel plating

[marble falls]

18. He doesn't want to research caronavirus, he wants to investigate how to pick your ...

pocket during the coronavirus plague.

Little weasel. He should get another year for trying to con us again.

[C Moon]

35. ...and Trump will be intrigued. "Tell me more, Pharma Bro."

[SunSeeker]

19. What a fucking ego. Put him in Elon Musk's sub and shove it up Trump's ass.

[EarthFirst]

21. We've got enough researchers working on it bud..

Literally the entire world is working on it at the moment.

Just sit tight where you’re at...

[cstanleytech]

22. And I want to hit the lottery, develop a serum for immortality as well as a warp drive. nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. He's not a scientist! N/t

[CloudWatcher]

30. But ... he can play one on Wall Street!

From Wikipedia, Shkreli ...

- Received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Baruch College in 2004
- Told Vanity Fair that he developed an interest in chemistry when a family member suffered from treatment-resistant depression.

Yeah, not a scientist. He could volunteer to demonstrate the effects of hydroxychloroquine overdosing.

[TeamPooka]

25. Better idea: Martin dies in prison.

[Midnight Writer]

26. Hell, I thought Trump had already pardoned this guy.

[DownFromTheMountain]

27. Ha He wants out to run Dolt45's

bogus knock-off plaquinill generics, made out of whatever is laying around. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Plaquackykill, copyright.

[area51]

28. Oh HELL No.

[KWR65]

29. Is this an appeal for Trump to commute his prison sentence?

[Eugene]

31. A grifter's gotta grift.

Brazen little prick, isn't he?

[truthisfreedom]

32. Chain him to his desk.

[C Moon]

33. He can't sleep thinking about how much money he could rip off from those needing help.

[Deep State Gnostic]

36. That would be like Al Capone getting out of jail to work with H&R Block.

[Raster]

38. No shit!!!

Stay in jail, DIPSHIT!

[Aristus]

37. He should stay in prison until I don't feel like punching him in his creepy face anymore.

It's gonna be a while...

[jmowreader]

39. Deleting the last three words of the headline would be appropriate

How is Pharma Bro going to know how to research virology when he has no scientific background?

[NNadir]

40. He is not a scientist; has no training as one; and is the Donald Trump of the Pharmaceutical World.