{"id":1106983,"date":"2023-02-13T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106983"},"modified":"2023-02-13T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:20:18","slug":"shkreli-tells-judge-his-drug-discovery-software-is-not-for-discovering-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106983","title":{"rendered":"Shkreli tells judge his drug discovery software is not for discovering drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-801169914-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Shkreli arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court on the first day of his securities fraud trial in 2017.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GettyImages-801169914.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"3840\" data-width=\"5760\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Martin Shkreli arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court on the first day of his securities fraud trial in 2017. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/license\/801169914\">Getty | Kevin Hagen<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an effort to avoid being held in contempt of court, former pharmaceutical executive and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/08\/shkreli-verdict-guilty-on-three-of-eight-counts-of-securities-and-wire-fraud\/\">convicted fraudster<\/a>, Martin Shkreli, made an eyebrow-raising argument to a federal judge Friday, stating that his company Druglike, which he previously described as a &#8220;drug discovery software platform,&#8221; was not engaged in drug discovery. As such, he argued he is not in violation of his sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/01\/shkrelis-infamous-4000-price-hike-gets-him-a-lifetime-pharma-ban\/\">lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Federal Trade Commission and seven states urged a federal judge in New York to hold Shkreli in contempt for <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/01\/ftc-shkreli-may-have-violated-lifetime-pharma-ban-should-be-held-in-contempt\/\">allegedly failing to cooperate with an investigation into whether he violated the ban<\/a>. The FTC said Shkreli failed to turn over requested documents related to Druglike and sit for an interview on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gov.uscourts.nysd_.530855.922.3-1.pdf\">the filing Friday,<\/a> Shkreli claims that he responded to the FTC&#8217;s requests &#8220;promptly and in good faith.&#8221; He acknowledged that when the FTC contacted him about the investigation last October he did not have a lawyer and didn&#8217;t know how to properly respond to the FTC&#8217;s investigation. But, he continued to categorically deny that Druglike violated his lifetime ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1917489#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1917489&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1917489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shkreli tells judge his drug discovery software is not for discovering drugs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Martin Shkreli arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court on the first day of his securities fraud trial in 2017. (credit: Getty | Kevin Hagen) In an effort to avoid being held in contempt of court, former pharmaceutical executive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1106983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1106983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}