Post by ck4829 on Jun 4, 2016 14:54:32 GMT
NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors in New York have filed additional criminal charges against a pharmaceutical executive who was heavily criticized for raising the price of a lifesaving medication.
A new indictment filed Friday in Brooklyn says Martin Shkreli and his former attorney Evan Greebel schemed to defrauded potential investors of his former drug company Retrophin Inc., based in San Diego. They say the two allocated company stock to seven employees to conceal Shkreli's ownership of it.
Shkreli gained notoriety after a drug company he founded, Turing Pharmaceuticals, spent $55 million for the U.S. rights to sell a life-saving medicine called Daraprim and promptly raised the price about 5,000 percent from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
www.cbsnews.com/news/new-charges-for-ex-pharmaceutical-executive-martin-shkreli/
A new indictment filed Friday in Brooklyn says Martin Shkreli and his former attorney Evan Greebel schemed to defrauded potential investors of his former drug company Retrophin Inc., based in San Diego. They say the two allocated company stock to seven employees to conceal Shkreli's ownership of it.
Shkreli gained notoriety after a drug company he founded, Turing Pharmaceuticals, spent $55 million for the U.S. rights to sell a life-saving medicine called Daraprim and promptly raised the price about 5,000 percent from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
www.cbsnews.com/news/new-charges-for-ex-pharmaceutical-executive-martin-shkreli/