A pharmaceutical executive known for his bad-boy persona and for spending $2 million on a Wu-Tang Clan album was arrested on fraud charges.
Martin Shkreli is the 32-year old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, but you might know him better as the “most hated man in America.” He’s the person who raised the price of a single dose of a lifesaving drug from $13.50 to $750 overnight and paid $2 million for the only known copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s new album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
Among other charges, Shkreli is accused of doctoring financial reports to dupe investors and officials while running a hedge fund he founded in his twenties that focused on the health care industry. He allegedly told investors his fund had $35 million in assets — when he really had $700, BuzzFeed News reports. He has denied all the allegations and was released on a $5 million bond.
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Some people responded to Shkreli’s arrest and subsequent perp walk with glee:
And for those of you who are worried about the fate of that Wu-Tang Clan album, the FBI says it doesn’t have it:
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A friend of one of the San Bernardino attackers was arrested and charged with conspiring to commit terrorism and illegally purchasing two assault rifles.
Enrique Marquez, 24, bought two assault rifles that his friend and former neighbor Syed Rizwan Farook used, along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, to carry out the Dec. 2 terror attack that killed 14 people, BuzzFeed News reports. Farook and Malik died during a shootout with police after the attack.
Some key points from the criminal complaint:
Farook and Marquez met in 2004 in Riverside, California, as next-door neighbors.
After Farook introduced Marquez to Islam, Marquez converted in 2007.
Marquez and Farook allegedly planned attacks in Southern California back in 2011, including using firearms and explosives to attack Riverside Community College, where both men had studied.
Marquez allegedly entered into a sham marriage in 2014 with a member of Farook’s family.
Hours after the shooting on Dec. 2, Marquez called 911, telling the operator he wanted to kill himself because Farook “did the San Bernardino shooting,” also telling the operator that “the fucking asshole used my gun in the shooting.”
Weapons confiscated from the attack in San Bernardino.
Reuters
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Better internet surveillance would not have stopped the San Bernardino attack, according to a former FBI agent with more than a decade of experience on the front line of online investigations.
FBI Director James Comey said Farook and Malik had expressed support for “jihad and martyrdom” in private emails and messages, but that there was no evidence of a public posting on social media, including on Facebook, BuzzFeed News’ Mike Hayes writes.
From left: Enrique Marquez; San Bernardino shooters Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik; and the van in which the two attackers initially escaped.
From left: Facebook, AP Photo
From left: Facebook, AP Photo, AP Photo
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