Anyone remember Martin Shkreli, whose self-satisfied smirk made me want to smack his face?
Martin Shkreli obtained the manufacturing rights to the anti-parasitic drug pyrimethamine (Daraprim), whose price he marked up by more than 5,000%. Then he tweaked the noses of a Congressional hearing. Surprise, surprise, he was was sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined $7.4 million for securities fraud a few months after the hearing.
This Year’s Shkreli Awards: Here’s Who Made the List
— “We are dumbfounded by the amount of profiteering,” Lown Institute president says
by Cheryl Clark, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today January 7, 2025
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The Shkreli Awards often call out people and companies that were once well-respected in their fields, Saini said. “These things happen because incentives get tilted in the direction of money and profit to the point that a lot of people who should know better end up losing their way,” he added… [end quote]
The list in the article is guaranteed to raise your blood pressure.
Wendy