martes, 28 de enero de 2020

Here’s some Martin Shkreli news

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Damian Garde & Meghana Keshavan

Here’s some Martin Shkreli news

Four years after Turing Pharmaceuticals famously raised the price of a generic drug (and two years after its founder was sentenced to federal prison), the company is getting sued for manufacturing a monopoly.

As STAT’s Ed Silverman reports, the Federal Trade Commission and the New York attorney general claim that Turing and ex-CEO Martin Shkreli broke the law by blocking generics companies from launching competitors to the costly Daraprim, which treats a serious parasitic infection.

In the meantime, Turing has changed its name first to Vyera and since to Phoenixus, and Shkreli is two years into a seven-year bid from an unrelated securities fraud conviction. Shkreli still maintains a controlling interest in the company, and Phoenixus is still in the business of selling Daraprim, albeit with diminishing returns.

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