Mar­tin Shkre­li gets a trans­fer to Brook­lyn fed­er­al prison in wake of his lat­est rule-break­ing es­capades be­hind bars

Mar­tin Shkre­li, AKA pris­on­er #87850-053, has a new view to con­tem­plate while the phar­ma bro serves his 7-year sen­tence for fraud. And he’s a lot clos­er to home.

On April 9, just a few weeks af­ter Shkre­li was back in the head­lines with a Wall Street Jour­nal ex­posé out­lin­ing his use of a con­tra­band phone to stay in touch with the out­side world and run his biotech com­pa­ny from Fort Dix, prison of­fi­cials moved Shkre­li to the Met­ro­pol­i­tan De­ten­tion Cen­ter in Brook­lyn.

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