[Enginerrrd]

Lol, don't wonder too hard. This is a pattern with the feds. If you go out of your way to piss off the public and be a flippant asshole to Congress, you're gonna have a hard time. Long before they announced any charges, I had a conversation with my dad about how the feds were likely to cook something up on this guy.

[crispyambulance]

> cook something up on this guy.

It was PONZI scheme. The only one who did the "cooking" was Shkreli himself.

[Enginerrrd]

I don't disagree, but it is my opinion that the nature of financial regulation in the US means that if you own any significant amount of wealth, you reach a level of complexity where you are probably at least unwittingly guilty of a misdemeanor or felony, and few would withstand FBI scrutiny with agents motivated to find something to prosecute you with.

Specifically, I think the law is sufficiently complex that it does allow for a significant degree of arbitrary enforcement.

[ascorbic]

Maybe, but this isn't one of those cases. This wasn't inadvertent or negligent, this was straight up deliberate fraud.