Martin Shkreli

Welcome to STAT’s archive of Martin Shkreli coverage. The man who gained “pharma bro” infamy by hiking the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000% was later sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud.

While CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per pill. He was later ordered to return more than $64 million in profits from that price hike and was barred from the pharmaceutical industry for life.