Finally, a Corporate Raider - more politely and misleadingly called Private Equity Manager - gets his just deserts. Raiders leverage & destroy companies all the time, of course, but rarely with such obvious lethal results as Shkreli's raising a 50-year old drug from $13.50 to $750 a pill.
Maybe this will restrain other pharma companies from ripping off consumers via decades old monopolies.
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