Remember This Slimy Corporate Prick?

[Joods]

Let me set you up with a coffee and an IV

Yeah, I'm in the middle of packing up the motel room and getting frustrated because I'm out of breath (asthma sucks), out of boxes and I still have a crap ton of stuff to do. I pick up the keys for the new place tomorrow. I also have to be at the new place for the gas man to arrive. I am so glad I don't have school on Fridays.

[Minimalist]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-...OTEzODE4S0

Lawyer for Martin Shkreli Hikes Fees Five Thousand Per Cent

Minutes after Shkreli’s arrest on charges of securities fraud, the attorney, Harland Dorrinson, announced that he was hiking his fees from twelve hundred dollars an hour to sixty thousand dollars.

Shkreli, who reportedly received the news about the price hike while he was being fingerprinted, cried foul and accused his attorney of “outrageous and inhumane price gouging.”

[Joods]

Well played Mr. Attorney. Well played.

[abaris]

None of the bankers that were responsible for the 2008 bubble spent a moment in prison, and this kid who was 16, drunk driving, and killed 4 people, and got 10 years probation because he was too rich to understand the consequences of his actions. Now he's apparently flown the country after being found in violation of his probation. This is 'Murrica, and rich people have their rights, you know.

The afluency kid. I remember this one. And of course I remember pharma dude, who skyrocketed the prices for medication by some 100 percents. Yes, let me break it down for you. You can afford a lawyer, worthy of his trade, and you go free. You get a public defender and you go down for any misdemeanor.

I'm not sure, if it's better anywhere else, but right now my country is convicting former politicians and lobbyists by the number. We had a rightwing coalition between 2000 and 2006. And these guys and gals still keep the courts very busy with all the corruption surfacing. Right now, a rather prominent lobbyist, married to a former minister, got three years of free federal housing.

[Brian37]

Just saw that on Twitter and that is awesome. Now if we could only throw some bankers and oil execs and even other pharma ceos in prison, that would be great. Put some more Bill Gates types in power to replace these crooks, our planet would be far better off.

[CapnAwesome]

None of the bankers that were responsible for the 2008 bubble spent a moment in prison, and this kid who was 16, drunk driving, and killed 4 people, and got 10 years probation because he was too rich to understand the consequences of his actions. Now he's apparently flown the country after being found in violation of his probation. This is 'Murrica, and rich people have their rights, you know.

The afluency kid. I remember this one. And of course I remember pharma dude, who skyrocketed the prices for medication by some 100 percents. Yes, let me break it down for you. You can afford a lawyer, worthy of his trade, and you go free. You get a public defender and you go down for any misdemeanor.

I'm not sure, if it's better anywhere else, but right now my country is convicting former politicians and lobbyists by the number. We had a rightwing coalition between 2000 and 2006. And these guys and gals still keep the courts very busy with all the corruption surfacing. Right now, a rather prominent lobbyist, married to a former minister, got three years of free federal housing.

If you rip off middle class or poor people you are never sent to prison. Bernie Madoff was one of the few who went to prison because he ripped off rich people. Also some of the people who were involved suffered some pretty suspicious heart attacks. Chances are a mob boss or someone was pissed off at getting ripped off. Assassins exist and the rich have access to them in a way that the middle class and poor do not. It's a reality that if a banker rips off a very rich person, his life may be at risk. If poor people crowdfunded private assassins, bankers would be more honest.

[vorlon13]

Bernie Madoff, now there is someone that greatly deserves Derby's Dose, each and every day.

And recall the little shit in the OP was shafting the sick and infirm to payoff his fuckups.

[Minimalist]

And, Capn, here to back you up is this article from the Daily Kos. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/17...tail=email

Just how did Shkreli get busted? The Cardinal Sin. He screwed other rich people.

No. To be sure, all the hand-wringing in the world over Shkreli’s despicable but totally legal free-market really, really sick-person screwing would have gone on pretty much unabated, if not for the worst screw up of all. While he was busy profiting off hastening the demise of desperately sick people in our proud American Pharma-as-Lord “healthcare” system, he was also playing fast and loose with ostensibly healthy and very rich peoples’ money. That, fellow Americans, we can NOT stand for.

[abaris]

Yup, I read that kind of argument at other places as well. He will go down because he pissed off the wrong people. The ones that actually matter and not the lowlife scum he helped to an early grave.

[Minimalist]

True of Madoff, too.