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> After a few minutes of gloating about pharma bro Martin Shkreli “rotting at Fort Dix” for raising the price of Daraprim

Except that’s totally unrelated to why he’s in prison.

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He went due to securities fraud but one could argue that, if it weren't due to the drug price thing, he could have flown under the radar, since the investors didn't lose any money.

Yeah, and Al Capone just went to jail for "tax evasion"...

He did go to jail for that, unless I'm confused.

He brought attention to his tax evasion for other reasons... but is it difficult to acknowledge that the direct legal cause of his jail time was evasion?

The claim being made is that the authorities wanted him in jail one way or another, because he was a gangster. Tax evasion just happened to be the charge they could make stick.

The counter-argument is that some authorities have always wanted to jail some people, but haven't been able to. Capone was jailed because he was caught on tax evasion; the mechanisms to why they looked at his tax records become lost in the argument around causality, which I don't think is fruitful in this context.

Seems like that's exactly why he's in prison, legalisms aside.

How else would they spam their Shkreli interview done when he was hip

It's a Vice article. Read it for the sensation, not the facts.

Right, that bothered me a little too.

Just goes to show.

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