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3. .. tripled their money

haha no... he LOST their money (All of it), LIED about it (fraud), and paid them back with OTHER funds.

Get the facts right first. Misstated - information, the only misstatements are in your post.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/investo...

(Reuters) - One of the investors former drug company executive Martin Shkreli is accused of defrauding testified on Wednesday that Shkreli lied to him repeatedly, although he eventually made millions of dollars from the investment.

This was apparently the guy who alerted investigators to the fraud. He made millions.

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I make no claim that they were not paid back and in excess of their initial investment (which was not in pharmaceuticals)

If I lose your money, lie to you, but then I give you 10X your money because I had that in a bank account somewhere because I won the lottery doesn't mean that I didn't commit fraud in relation to your original investment.

Just because your "investment" was repaid at a greater amount doesn't mean you weren't defrauded. He made money because of a settlement, NOT because the investment was in pharma. From your own source article:

...largely through an agreement in which Shkreli gave him shares in his drug company Retrophin Inc.

Shkreli committed fraud, got caught, investors realized they were defrauded, Shkreli then settled privately and paid them above their initial investments with funds completely unrelated to their investments.

He made millions because Shkreli got lucky and was able to settle with them privately. That does not absolve him from the criminal actions he committed just because he settled the civil cases. If Shkreli didn't get lucky with his pharma scheme those investors would not get paid back because their original investment funds were all gone long ago, and again, were not involved in the pharma scheme.

You seem to lack the understanding of the facts in this case.

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>Just because your "investment" was repaid at a greater amount doesn't mean you weren't defrauded. He made money because of a settlement, NOT because the investment was in pharma. From your own source article:

Show me where I said he didn't commit fraud. Tell me which facts are wrong. I cited where he made his investors money. You just threw insults. Jackass.

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Please stop.

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