05-18-2020, 12:39 AM
A federal judge has denied a request from Martin Shkreli — the former pharmaceutical executive widely disdained as "pharma bro" — to be released from prison so he can work on a coronavirus treatment.
In her ruling Saturday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto sided with probation officials who described Shkreli's stated aim of developing a coronavirus cure as the type of "delusional self-aggrandizing behavior" that got him his sentence in the first place.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus...avirus-cur
Since he's a con man, maybe he's really trying to get another con man who has "delusional self-aggrandizing behavior" to pardon him so that he can produce a magic cure.