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Shkreli Stays in Jail; Infamous Ex-Pharma CEO Quickly Loses Appeal

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 22 2019, @11:39AM   
from the swift-judgement dept.

"upstart" writes:

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Shkreli stays in jail; Infamous ex-pharma CEO quickly loses appeal

In a swift 3-0 vote Thursday, a panel of judges in a New York federal appeals court upheld the August 2017 conviction of Martin Shkreli. The infamous ex-pharmaceutical CEO is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud stemming from what prosecutors had described as a Ponzi-like scheme.

Shkreli, 36, must continue to serve his sentence and also still forfeit more than $7.3 million in assets, the judges affirmed.

The judges' ruling came just three weeks after hearing arguments in the appeal—rather than the normal period of months, Bloomberg notes. The ruling was also an unusually short seven pages.

In it, the panel rejected Shkreli's argument that the judge in his trial, US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, confused jurors with the wording of some of their instructions on how to deliberate the case.

"The instruction given here correctly stated the law," the panel said in its decision. "As such, we disagree with Shkreli that exclusion of additional language describing an element not required for the charged crime constituted a prejudicial error."

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• Social Media Luminaries Social Media Luminaries (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Monday July 22 2019, @02:07PM (7 children)

  by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Monday July 22 2019, @02:07PM (#869949) Journal

  Who is the most prominent and widely followed user of social media whom SN readers actually trust?

  Just wondering...

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• Re:Social Media Luminaries Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:13PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:13PM (#869953)

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  • Re:Social Media Luminaries Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:29PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:29PM (#869960)

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    • Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 22 2019, @06:43PM

      by DannyB (5839) on Monday July 22 2019, @06:43PM (#870035) Journal

      So #403 is like the French? They understand our language, but refuse to speak to us in it.

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    • Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 22 2019, @09:22PM

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• Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:35PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @02:35PM (#869963)

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• Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @04:23PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 22 2019, @04:23PM (#869994)

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• Re:Social Media Luminaries (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Monday July 22 2019, @05:21PM

  by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Monday July 22 2019, @05:21PM (#870008) Journal

  Not a single pseudonym among the Anonymous Cowards, I note.

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