{"id":181998,"date":"2016-01-20T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/20\/least-surprising-news-of-the-day-9\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:19:00","slug":"least-surprising-news-of-the-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/20\/least-surprising-news-of-the-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Surprising News of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharma bro Martin Shkreli hasw <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/01\/shkreli-invokes-5th-amendment-wont-assist-senate-drug-pricing-probe\/\">taken the 5<sup>th<\/sup> in response to a Congressional inquiry into price gouging in drugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination on Wednesday, and he won&#8217;t comply with a subpoena for documents issued from a Senate panel investigating pharma drug pricing tactics.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 32-year-old Shkreli was also subpoenaed to appear before a different panel, the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to testify about the price of a life-saving drug he increased by more than 5,000 percent.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Shkreli became the poster child for greed last year after he raised the price of Daraprim\u2014used to treat parasitic infections\u2014from $13.50 a pill to $750. A single pill once sold for $1. Now facing criminal charges that he allegedly defrauded investors, Shkreli has said he should have boosted prices for the drug even more.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear:&nbsp; He has a right not to testify against himself, but generally it doesn&#8217;t apply to, you know, physical proof.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, he is a ratf%$# who deserves to spend the rest of his life in gaol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharma bro Martin Shkreli hasw taken the 5th in response to a Congressional inquiry into price gouging in drugs: The founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination on Wednesday, and he won&#8217;t comply with a subpoena for documents issued from a Senate panel investigating pharma &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,998,969,972,1018,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-congress","category-evil","category-justice","category-pharma","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}