Words: Harry Shukman
Way out in the sticks of central Pennsylvania, not far from the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, Martin Shkreli is busy plotting his comeback. This is not his choice of headquarters — he would rather be scheming from his deluxe apartment in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighbourhood — but options are somewhat limited when you’re inmate 87850-053 of Allenwood Low Federal Correctional Institution.
Shkreli, or the Pharma Bro, as he likes to be called, is currently serving a seven-year sentence for securities fraud. At the time of his trial, New York media, which loves a villain, painted him as a grinning demon who rampaged his way through the pharmaceutical industry, hiking the price of an AIDS drug from $13.50 per tablet to $750.
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