Martin
Shkreli,
former
chief
executive
officer
of
Turing
Pharmaceuticals
AG,
exits
court
in
New
York,
US,
on
Wednesday,
Oct.
4,
2023.
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Iwamura
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Infamous
“Pharma
Bro”
Martin
Shkreli
violated
his
prison
release
conditions
to
appear
on
former
Fox
News
host
Tucker
Carlson’s
show
on
X,
a
court
document
showed
Wednesday.
Shkreli,
40,
failed
to
tell
his
probation
officer
that
he
was
leaving
his
home
in
Queens,
New
York,
for
an
in-person
interview
with
Carlson
in
Maine,
the
officer
wrote
to
a
judge
in
federal
court
in
Brooklyn.
“Notably,
at
no
time
did
Shkreli
advise
the
undersigned
officer,
nor
any
other
officer
within
the
Probation
Department
of
his
desire
to
travel
out
of
state
to
participate
in
an
interview,”
the
officer
wrote.
But
the
officer
wrote
that
“we
are
respectfully
requesting
that
the
Court
take
no
action,”
given
Shkreli’s
“otherwise
positive
adjustment.”
The
court
granted
that
request.
Shkreli
is
working
as
a
consultant
for
the
Law
Office
of
Christopher
K.
Johnston
LLC
and
as
a
software
developer
for
DL
Software,
according
to
the
document.
He
earns
$6,967
monthly,
has
no
remaining
financial
court
obligations
and
continues
to
complete
20
hours
of
community
service
each
month.
Shkreli’s
attorney,
Benjamin
Brafman,
declined
CNBC’s
request
for
comment.
Shkreli
was
released
from
a
low-security
federal
prison
in
Pennsylvania
in
May
2022,
more
than
four
years
after
being
sentenced
for
securities
fraud
charges.
The
case
related
to
accusations
that
Shkreli
had
defrauded
hedge
fund
investors
to
found
his
first
drug
company,
Retrophin.
It
was
unrelated
to
what
made
Shkreli
a
notorious
household
name:
his
decision
in
2015
as
then-CEO
of
Turing
Pharmaceuticals
to
raise
the
price
of
the
drug
Daraprim
from
$13.50
per
pill
to
$750
per
pill.
That
move,
and
his
unapologetic
public
statements
about
doing
so,
led
to
him
earning
the
“Pharma
Bro”
nickname.
In
his
Nov.
6
appearance
on
Carlson’s
show,
Shkreli
“mused
on
various
topics
related
to
his
time
in
prison,
upbringing,
and
prior
business
dealings,”
the
U.S.
probation
officer
wrote
in
Wednesday’s
court
filing.
An
officer
became
aware
of
the
interview
a
day
later,
and
the
following
week
confronted
Shkreli
about
it.
Shkreli
confirmed
the
studio
was
in
Maine
and
that
he
had
traveled
there
by
plane
and
train,
according
to
the
filing.
He
“continued
to
explain
that
his
leaving
the
judicial
district
without
permission,
was
a
reaction
to
the
perception
that
his
previous
supervising
probation
officer
was
often
non-responsive
to
his
requests
for
travel,”
the
officer
wrote.
