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"Most hated man in America" arrested for securities fraud

Shkreli is the guy who runs the drug maker Turing. He ordered the price of a specialty drug that fights cancer and HIV to be raised from $13.50 to $750 a pill this fall.

By Dan Cook | Updated on December 17, 2015
Carrying an image of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli in a makeshift cat litter pan, AIDS activists and others protest highlighting pharmaceutical drug pricing. Turing Pharmaceuticals sparked an angry backlash last month after it raised the price of Daraprim, the only approved treatment for a rare, life-threatening parasitic infection, by more than 5,000 percent. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Martin Shkreli’s arrest generates the rush you get when a Corvette passes you on the freeway doing 100 mph, and then 10 miles down the road you pass the Corvette owner pulled over by a cop.

“Ah,” you say, “there is occasional justice in life!”

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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