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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:37 AM Mar 2018

Pharma Bro begs for 'mercy' from judge ahead of sentencing

A sniveling Martin Shkreli promised to make a federal judge “proud” in the years to come as he begged for mercy ahead of his sentencing, according to a new court filing.

In a letter to Brooklyn federal court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, Shkreli owned up to duping investors in his failed hedge funds MSMB Capital Management and MSMB Healthcare and waxed poetic about spending the last five months in prison.

“I understand it, I am very far from blameless,” he wrote ahead of the March 9 sentencing. “I caused this entire mess to happen. I lost the trust of my investors who now have questioned my motives and integrity. This is a painful realization that I will never forget.”

Matsumoto tossed Shkreli behind bars in September for putting a $5,000 bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair. He called his experience while locked up “the most frightening experience in my life but also an opportunity for me to see a side of the world seldom seen or discussed.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/02/28/pharma-bro-begs-for-mercy-from-judge-ahead-of-sentencing/

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catbyte

(34,369 posts)
1. Maybe another dime will knock even more arrogance out of that little shithead.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:46 AM
Mar 2018

If that little pisher gets probation, I will have completely lost faith in the American justice system.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. I guarantee his first acts of that little shithead...
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:50 AM
Mar 2018

...will be to Instagram and tweet to his "followers" how he played the judge for a reduced sentence... that's what snotty, shitty, entitled little sociopaths do.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
4. Now this is where I believe he should be put in a minimum wage job somewhere
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:59 AM
Mar 2018

And have his wages garnished until every penny is repaid with penalties and interest.

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