U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto wrote that the probation department was skeptical of Shkreli's claim that he could develop a cure for COVID-19 that has 'so far eluded the best medical and scientific minds in the world working around the clock.”
Feds slam 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's attempt to leave prison to find COVID-19 cure
U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued her ruling on Saturday, siding with federal prosecutors and probation officials who urged her to rebuff the 37-year-old Shkreli's petition, which they described in court documents as the type of"delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that got him a lengthy sentence in the first place.
Matsumoto wrote that the probation department was skeptical of Shkreli's claim that he could develop a cure forthat has"so far eluded the best medical and scientific minds in the world working around the clock.” Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli pauses while speaking to the press after the jury issued a verdict in his case at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Aug. 4, 2017 in New York City.
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