NEW YORK (Reuters) -Martin Shkreli, known for once hiking the price of a life-saving drug more than 4,000%, cannot return to the pharmaceutical industry after a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld his lifetime ban. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge acted properly in imposing the ban and ordering Shkreli to repay $64.6 million because of his antitrust violations. The case had been brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by New York, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, known for once hiking the price of a life-saving drug more than 4,000%, cannot return to the pharmaceutical industry after a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld his lifetime ban.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court judge acted properly in imposing the ban and ordering Shkreli to repay $64.6 million because of his antitrust violations.

The case had been brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by New York, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Shkreli, 40, became notorious and gained the sobriquet “Pharma Bro” when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he raised the price of the newly-acquired antiparasitic drug Daraprim overnight to $750 per tablet from $17.50.

  • Bigoldmustard
    595·
    5 months ago

    Lead to death of people by making their drugs unaffordable: now Martin, you’re not to work in the industry again

    Sell drugs people literally begged you for and lead to death because you made their self treatment affordable: life in prison.

      • Bigoldmustard
        222·
        5 months ago

        Someone who sells someone heroin they overdose on.

        What kind of functioning moral system could possibly make such a distinction?

        You have led to a death either way. Why is one life worth less? The only logical conclusion is classism.

        • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
          101·
          5 months ago

          It’s not classism it’s capitalism. We’ve long accepted that people should die if they can’t pay, many people will even argue that it’s a good thing. Absolutely deranged system.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        And guns don’t kill people. Once The bullet leaves the barrel it’s anyone’s guess where the bullet goes. If it happens to kill someone then the bullet was the issue, not the gun nor the person pulling the trigger.