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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli: Con man or mad genius?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Federal prosecutors want the judge in Martin Shkreli's securities fraud trial to order the so-called "Pharma Bro" to shut up. Shkreli, who is infamous for buying rights to an AIDS drug and raising the price 5,000-percent, has ignored his lawyer's advice to not talk to reporters. In this episode, Nancy Grace and Alan Duke talk about the Wall Street investor's latest courthouse antics.

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0:00.0

Martin Screly was named the most leaded man in America after jacking up prices on life-saving

0:09.6

drugs to make a profit.

0:10.6

That's price gouging, pure and simple.

0:13.6

It looks like a spoiled brat to me.

0:15.4

The feds came after him for security fraud.

0:17.6

Screly was arrested in 2015 and charged by the SEC with committing a series of financial

0:22.8

frauds over a five-year period.

0:25.0

This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:28.0

These charges are unrelated to what earned him national sworn in the nickname Farma Broke.

0:33.1

Martin Screly has never shied away from the spotlight and he certainly isn't doing that

0:36.8

now during his trial.

0:38.5

Prosecutors ridiculed by Martin Screly want him to be quiet, accusing him of making a spectacle

0:43.9

of himself and the trial.

0:45.6

Just days after he blasted them as junior varsity,

0:48.3

Martin's message was that they're not covering his trial fairly.

0:51.3

Screly's attorney blames the media and what he calls his clients frail emotional state.

0:57.6

Imagine that you or someone you love deeply, a family member, a child, a mother, a father,

1:05.6

brother is stricken with cancer or HIV.

1:12.7

And there is a pill that can help them live.

1:18.8

That pill costs 17 cents to make.

1:22.5

It sells for $13.50, $13 a pill per pill.

1:28.9

And then suddenly that pill is jacked up to $750 a pill.

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