Prison of­fi­cials launch a probe in­to Mar­tin Shkre­li's lat­est an­tics, al­leged­ly run­ning his biotech busi­ness with a con­tra­band cell phone

Mar­tin Shkre­li has found him­self in an­oth­er mess, and this one comes with a pos­si­ble tack-on to his prison sen­tence of up to one year in the fed­er­al pen, plus a fine.

In the wake of the Wall Street Jour­nal’s ex­pose on Shkre­li’s lat­est shenani­gans, the US Bu­reau of Pris­ons has be­gun an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ar­ti­cle’s claim that the ‘Phar­ma Bro,’ an avid smart­phone user be­fore he was sen­tenced to 7 years for fraud, has found him­self a con­tra­band cell phone to run his biotech busi­ness be­hind the walls of his low se­cu­ri­ty prison Fort Dix.

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