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qcon99 t1_is7smnc wrote

Reply to comment by ILikeMyGrassBlue in Two unreleased and 'never digitized' NES games are up for auction on eBay by thebelsnickle1991

I’m uninformed, who is he? And why don’t people like him?

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adv0catus t1_is7v048 wrote

He bought the rights to a drug and jacked the price up by like 5,000% or something along those lines.

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qcon99 t1_is7vhr5 wrote

Interesting, I did a google search and found this:

> In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,455% (from US$13.50 to $750 per pill).

Turing is a pharmaceutical company he founded and was ceo of.

> In 2017, Shkreli was charged and convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud, unrelated to the Daraprim controversy.[7] He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and up to $7.4 million in fines.

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bluepsychedelia t1_is86ll9 wrote

Not sure what you’re trying to say here

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qcon99 t1_is89v44 wrote

Oh I think he’s a scumbag for doing it, but I find little tidbits of random info here and there interesting to know is all

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