The convicted pharmaceutical executive asked to leave prison so he could research a treatment for the novel coronavirus, a rationale officials dismissed as the type of “delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that got him locked up.
, Shkreli, 37, said that the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to create a treatment for covid-19 are “inadequate” and that he is “one of the few executives experienced in ALL aspects of drug development.”
It’s that type of thinking that landed him in prison, the department said, according to U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto’s nine-page ruling issued Saturday. The disgraced executive has repeatedly flouted authorities and seemed to revel in even a critical national spotlight; he
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