The Drug Company CEO That Everyone Loves to Hate (‘lol’)
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Long before Martin Shkreli was arrested in New York Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, the outspoken, 32-year-old chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG had made himself famous.
At Turing, he bought a decades-old anti-infective drug and in August raised the price to $750 a pill from $13.50, which led the BBC to ask if he was the “most hated man in America.”