Martin Shkreli: who is “Pharma Bro” and why he will have to pay US $ 64 million

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Martin Shkreli is known as “the most hated man in America.”

Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical company executive who ordered drastic price increases on a life-saving drug, has been banned from the industry for life.

On Friday, Judge Denise Cote ordered him to repay US$64.6 million in earnings that he got by buying the patent on a drug and then greatly increasing its price.

The judge ruled that Shkreli’s actions violated antitrust laws.

Shkreli is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for defrauding investors and using funds from one of the companies he founded to his advantage.

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