What is odd about it all, is that it came to my attention because. . . Mr. Shkreli was supposedly going to donate his time, and video greetings to a personalized video greetings service, and let the charity charge for it -- so his remaining fame or infamy, whichever formulation one prefers. . . would help other incarcerated people to ease back into society.
Then a journalist (or two) wrote about the irony of this aspect -- and true to form, Mr. Shkreli answered, in a decidedly pungent fashion (see image at right, in the ring).
The central idea behind old Mike Milken's reputation rehab tour, over a decade, now two decades ago. . . was to show people he had changed, and was looking to better humanity.
Whether you believed Milken or not is irrelevant. It was the stated goal.
But here, maybe (I don't know?) because he's new to this -- Martin breaks the fourth wall, almost immediately. . . bragging to the journalist who is helping give the worthy charity added visibility. . . that he was an "accomplished" price gouger.
[And that comes immediately before promoting his own fake $50,000 portfolio of "shorted" stock bets, in a YouTube competition -- against another online persona. Charming.]
I suppose that was true for about five years (that he was a successful gouger) -- though now he'll owe $65 million in judgments (likely never to be paid off in his lifetime) -- so, he'll remain largely bereft of funds. . . because of that price gouging, to his dying day.
Sure -- he had a heady few years, there... but he spent half a decade in the clink, and now faces maybe 60 more years of living hand to mouth. [In that regard, he's also selling off his "prison collection" memorabilia, as we noted last week, and imaged -- at immediate left.]
Not quite as successful a gouger as he makes himself out to be -- when viewed through the longer lens of unfolding history, since 2015.
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