The (Rightly) Most Hated Man in America

Let me say that first that Martin Shkreli makes me sick. He started making me sick when he revealed himself as a master of pharmaceutical IP piracy and again as recently as this week when he bizarrely invited Taylor Swift to fellate him (who talks this way?) for the opportunity to listen to a one of a kind Wu-Tang Clan album he bought for two million dollars. I first smiled and then laughed when I heard he got arrested by the Feds for securities fraud. But I will say this: having watched this stuff for a few decades, the best way to get yourself arrested by the feds for various financial crimes is to become extremely unpopular and widely vilified. I don’t mean, Shkreli didn’t do it. I suspect he did. And I’m sure he deserves it since he seems to be such a conscienceless, awful person. But this is a thing with federal prosecutors.