Judge Permanently Bans 'Chaotic' and 'Untrustworthy' Martin Shkreli From Running Public CompaniesShkreli had asked for a 10-year officer and director restriction.

ByAmanda Breen

Infamous 'Pharma Bro'Martin Shkreliwill never sit at the helm of a public company again. On Wednesday, a U.S. judge permanently banned the formerpharmaceuticalexecutive from acting as an officer or director of public companies,Reuters reports, and also fined him $1.39 million for violating securities law between 2009 and 2014.

U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn issued her ruling in the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil case, alleging Shkreli swindled investors in hishedge fundand siphoned funds from his biotechnology company Retrophin to pay back those investors.

In 2015,Shkreli图灵制药的首席执行官,他ga在哪里吗ined notoriety for inflating the price of life-saving parasitic drug Daraprim overnight to $750 per tablet from $17.50. Later that year, he was arrested on fraud and conspiracy charges related to Retrophin and his MSMB Capital Management and MSMB Healthcare Management hedge funds. He was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in 2017 and received a seven-year sentence, which he's currently serving at a low-security prison in Allenwood, PA.

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Shkreli had asked for a 10-year officer and director restriction, claiming that his prison sentence and $7.8 million in forfeiture and fines in his associated criminal case were punishment enough. But Matsumoto called Shkreli a "chaotic, dishonest, and untrustworthy corporate leader" who would likely break the law again if given the chance to lead apublic companyin the future.

Last month, a federal judge in Manhattan permanently barred Shkreli from the drug industry and fined him $64.6 million.

Shkreli will be eligible for release in November of this year.

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Amanda Breen

Entrepreneur Staff

Features Writer

Amanda Breen is a features writer at Entrepreneur.com. She is a graduate of Barnard College and received an MFA in writing at Columbia University, where she was a news fellow for the School of the Arts.

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