The Fort Dix redemption: Martin Shkreli’s contraband cell phones, new biotech schemes and fresh social media infamy
Martin Shkreli is not your average occupant of a federal prison cell.
He uses a contraband cell phone to manage his business, the same one that made him notorious as a price gouger who gamed the pharma system by buying an old, cheap drug and jacking up the price at an astronomical rate.
He whiles away his time reading about drugs and drug development, according to an amazingly in-depth feature from the Wall Street Journal, which gets right down to naming some close friends who help protect him in the yard of the low-security Fort Dix pen. And there’s free time to maintain a blog, jump on to Twitter and ridicule various people, which was always his favorite hobby.
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