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Smirking Shkreli refuses lawmakers’ questions, calls them ‘imbeciles’

February 4, 2016 by · Leave a Comment 

By Sarah N. Lynch and David Ingram WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former drug executive Martin Shkreli smirked and brushed off questions about drug prices then tweeted that lawmakers were imbeciles on Thursday, when he appeared at a U.S. congressional hearing against his will. Shkreli, 32, sparked outrage last year among patients, medical societies and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of the drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent to $750 a pill. At a hearing of the U.S. House…

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Smirking Shkreli refuses lawmakers’ questions, calls them ‘imbeciles’

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