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Sat Oct 17, 2015, 09:11 AM Oct 2015

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli whines about Bernie giving his money to charity

The man-child known as “Pharma Bro” — also known as Martin Shkreli — is an absolute wonder when it comes to public relations. As in “We wonder if he would would recognize good PR is if he was neck-deep in it.” Because, quite frankly, he can’t seem to stop from publicly punching himself in the face — and we can’t stop watching.

The former hedge funder turned pharma CEO turned Internationally Known Social Pariah and Greedhead has a knack for blithely making terrible decisions and then compounding them by doubling down and going on TV and trying to grin and bluff his way out of it.

Never successfully.

Ever.

Shkreli was finally beat down enough to agree to lower the price of Daraprim — down from from the $750 per pill he had jacked it up to after buying the rights to it when it was selling for $13.50 a pop — but that has yet to happen.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-whines-about-bernie-giving-his-money-to-charity-and-twitter-tears-him-a-new-one/

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