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  1. 03-01-2018, 10:42 AM #1
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    Martin Shkreli

    “I was wrong, I was a fool. I should have known better, I accept the fact that I made serious mistakes, but I still believe that I am a good person with much potential, I have learned a harsh lesson. The trial and six months in a maximum security prison has been a frightening wake-up call. I now understand how I need to change.
    If you find it appropriate to impose a sentence that does not include an extended period of incarceration, I will do my absolute best to use my skills and whatever talents I have been blessed with for the betterment of humanity,”


    Uhmmm, No


    "I am a good person," it grinned. It noticed your gaze, directed at the hand of the corpse draped over its right foot. It kicked that hand off, lazily. The body it belonged to more than fit into the wasteland it was standing in, a field of cadavers still looking the way they had before they died - frightened, desperate, confused. A charnel house of puzzlement, of bodies who never understood the depth of greed they had faced.

    "I," it said again, its long tongue flickering towards your face, "am a good person."

    And that was when you noticed that the word in question wasn't "good" - nothing about him could be good - but that the stinking-breathed creature facing you was arguing that it was a "person."

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  2. 03-01-2018, 11:18 AM #2
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    Mark this day on the calendar Don, you and I agree 100 % that this guy is a scumbag and should spend his full sentence, whatever that may be locked in a deep and dark cell.

    Now they should hammer Manchin's daughter for the epi-pen price going through the roof. Add to that the rest of the pharma companies that are raping the public and giving the same drugs to foreign govts for much less....they might have to build a new jail just for the Pharma industry alone. Lock him up and throw away the key.
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    Classic example of a dirtbag breaking his way into jail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Classic example of a dirtbag breaking his way into jail.
    ...and may he be ever so successful
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    So Sad.

    Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli cried in court Friday as he apologized for defrauding investors while being sentenced by a federal judge.

    Shkreli, his cocky persona nowhere to be found, cried as he told U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto he made many mistakes and apologized to investors. He was convicted of securities fraud last year for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds.

    He said he is the only person to blame — not the media, not the government, nor his business partners — and that he hopes to make amends and learn from his mistakes.

    "I'm not the same person I was. I know right from wrong. I know what it means to tell the truth and what it means to lie," he said, before apologizing to his investors. "I am terribly sorry I lost your trust. You deserve far better."
    Not apologizing to the many folks who depended on the life-saving drug that he raised to price 5000% on I see.
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    The trial and six months in a maximum security prison has been a frightening wake-up call. I now understand how I need to change.
    It seems like they all start getting the message right around that time, In six more months he will be sitting at the right hand of Jesus! Can I get an AMEN!
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    Well I hope he shares a cell with an amorous big boy for the length of his stay.
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    May be serve every day of his 7 year sentence---what a POS
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    May be serve every day of his 7 year sentence---what a POS
    On a federal crime I think he has to do 85% minimum.
    It being first offense non-violent may make a difference though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mgrist View Post
    On a federal crime I think he has to do 85% minimum.
    It being first offense non-violent may make a difference though.
    I can hope can't I

    I don't often get the urge to bust someone in the face---but that boy managed to take me there
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    Quote Originally Posted by mgrist View Post
    On a federal crime I think he has to do 85% minimum.
    It being first offense non-violent may make a difference though.
    You probably have a better grasp on this issue, and I have been out of the criminal side of things for decades, but it used to be credit for time served and actual days in slam were two different things. For example, an inmate might get credit for 3 days when only two are served if he gives blood or works an undesirable duty. Some extra credit was often given for “good time,” meaning giving no trouble, which was a way to dangle benefits if the inmate became subservient depending on the turnkeys.

    In other words under the system with which I was familiar, an inmate could conceivably get credit for years not actually served.
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