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Martin Shkreli Fraud Case Study

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Prospective jurors believe that Martin Shkreli is "the face of corporate greed in America." Shkreli, best known for raising the price of life-saving pharmaceuticals, is charged in links with securities fraud. Prosecutors say he manipulated investors in one company and then overcharged his other company to pay them back. Shkreli’s defense attorneys, however, arrest that he paid them back. A judge calims that he finds Shkreli 's case irrelevant. “I think [Shkreli’s] a very evil man,” the first prospective juror told Judge Matsumoto. Another juror told the judge that both of his parents are on Daraprim, the drug whose price Shkreli is best known for raising. “I also have several friends with HIV and who have AIDS, who can 't afford their
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