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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 12:32 PM Sep 2015

Lawsuit: Scumbag Pill Price Gouger (Shkreli) Stalked and Harassed Ex-Coworker's Entire Family

Even before he earned national infamy for jacking up the price of life-saving cancer and HIV meds and then being a general shit about it on Twitter, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli was working hard on a toxic reputation. Court documents show Shkreli’s disturbing history of tormenting the wife and daughters of a business foe.

Timothy Pierotti was a colleague of Shkreli at his pervious biotech venture, Retrophin, before an alleged business deal gone awry created bad blood. From there, legal documents allege, Shkreli proceeded to harass and threaten Pierotti’s family via email, Facebook, LinkedIn, and text message. Pierotti says Shkreli—a one time Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree—even broke into various online accounts owned by his family:



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Lawsuit: Scumbag Pill Price Gouger (Shkreli) Stalked and Harassed Ex-Coworker's Entire Family (Original Post) Triana Sep 2015 OP
Nemesis, darling, please take care of this little schmuck. niyad Sep 2015 #1
This is the type of dirtbag StandingInLeftField Sep 2015 #2
No hints there, or anything... Daemonaquila Sep 2015 #3
Heaven's No! StandingInLeftField Sep 2015 #6
The smug look on his mug makes me wanna Faux pas Sep 2015 #4
He is a sociopath. -none Sep 2015 #5

-none

(1,884 posts)
5. He is a sociopath.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 01:54 PM
Sep 2015

I saw an interview and in it a reasonable profit for him was more important than lives saved. He thinks he did something great by buying ownership and sole rights to manufacture this drug. He has no competition here.

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