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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

I am 100% innocent of all criminal charges

I'm innocent without a doubt. The charges are related to some hedge funds I operated in a public company I operated. Don't have one person who has ever complained. You won't find one person that ever lost money in these funds.

Shkreli was convicted of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy in August 2017 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

My trial will be the trial of the decade

The trial is next year in June. It promises to be trial of the decade. I want to make it out to be this big thing. I want it to be like pay-per-view.

While a high-profile case, it was arguably overshadowed by other legal events of the decade, making this a matter of subjective hype.
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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

My company Turing is worth one billion dollars

I don't like to talk about it, but if you look at the company, Turing, that I own, I think that company is worth a billion dollars.

Following Shkreli's arrest and the company's anti-trust violations, it was ordered to pay $40M in restitution and its value plummeted as Shkreli was banned from the industry for life.
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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

Ulcerative colitis is not actually a disease and those who have it are lucky the drug industry pays attention to them

Ulcerative colitis is not a disease... They're not great medicines, but the people with ulcerative colitis, they're lucky, quite frankly, that they have a drug industry who can pay attention to them.

Ulcerative colitis is universally recognized as a chronic inflammatory bowel disease by medical professionals.
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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

Vaccinations are great and people who dispute them are idiots

They're great. People who dispute them are idiots. And more people should be vaccinated for more things. I feel horrible that people mouth off about this stuff without knowing the facts.

Reflects scientific consensus.
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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

If you ask someone if something is good or bad and they say 'it's complicated,' that means it sucks

If I ask you if something's good or bad and you say it's complicated, that means it sucks. Fine, fair enough.

A subjective interpretation of social cues.

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