Mar­tin Shkre­li sud­den­ly changes his tune on Clin­ton threat; Genen­ta adds $8M for gene ther­a­py R&D

⇨ Look­ing to stay out of jail ahead of his sen­tenc­ing on three con­vic­tions on felony fraud charges, Mar­tin Shkre­li has apol­o­gized to the judge in his case for his “awk­ward at­tempt at hu­mor” in his Face­book post­ing of­fer­ing to pay any­one who grabbed a lock of Hillary Clin­ton’s hair $5,000. In the let­ter, Shkre­li says he’s a non­vi­o­lent per­son and nev­er in­tend­ed any­one harm. Fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors asked the judge to jail him, claim­ing that Shkre­li is a threat that should be be­hind bars now. CN­BC re­ports that Shkre­li took a dif­fer­ent ap­proach in re­spond­ing on Face­book. He wrote: ‘‘F— the gov­ern­ment. I will nev­er kiss their ring or snitch. Come at me with your hard­est be­cause I haven’t seen any­thing im­pres­sive yet.”

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