“Shkreli told the Journal on Sunday that “‘trying to find anything we could to stop him’ was the attitude of the government” that arrested him Thursday.
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In the month leading up to Shkreli’s arrest last week, KaloBios said it would buy the rights to a treatment for Chagas disease that was not approved in the USA, ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval, and if successful, sell it at prices similar to hepatitis C drugs.
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The FBI has accused Mr Shkreli of using assets from his former company, Retrophin, to illegally pay off debts at MSMB, the hedge fund he managed.
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But that’s still way down compared to the last one, .2 million ( Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked in 2011). The previous best for each was also set in 2013 with .719 billion domestic and .013 billion worldwide .
However, following release on a $5 million bail, Shkreli, who has, since September, been called a “morally bankrupt sociopath” and “the most hated man in America”, among other things, rejected the allegations, calling them “baseless and without merit”.
THE under-fire hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Martin Shkreli has been fired from his role as CEO of a Californian pharmaceuticals company.
Drugmaker KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc said it removed Martin Shkreli as chief executive on December 17, the day he was arrested on charges of a securities fraud. The drug to be tested was KB003, which was being developed to treat a form of leukemia.
The now former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who has proclaimed his innocence on Twitter, described his arrest to the Journal as a “real injustice” and “definitely not something I deserve given the facts”. He had also said the price hike would help the company develop new drugs.
The company has not named a replacement even on an interim basis.
The verified Twitter account for Shkreli was apparently hacked over the weekend, but those tweets were deleted midday Monday, and a new message was posted.
In a statement, KaloBios, said that Tony Chase also stepped down from the company’s board.
No replacement to serve in Shkreli’s role has been announced by KaloBios.
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Trading in KaloBios shares was halted on Monday for the third straight session. “Willing to donate hundreds of thousands to charities before I go to prison”, and asking people to re-tweet a message for a chance to win the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that he notoriously paid $2 million for. He was later ousted from the company, where he’d been CEO, and sued by its board.
