Pharma fraudster Shkreli denied prison release after he said he could help find Covid-19 treatment
Shkreli's defense lawyers warned in a court filing that he has a "susceptibility to infection [from the coronavirus] due to allergies and asthma."
The judge wrote that Shkreli has no documented current diagnosis or treatment for asthma, and that he himself "failed to mention asthma in his March 30, 2020 petition" to the federal Bureau of Prisons seeking early released.
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