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'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli is ordered to return $64M, barred from drug industry

Martin Shkreli, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud, must return profits he and his former company reaped from raising the price of a life-saving drug, a federal judge ruled.

NEW YORK — must return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped from raising the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim, a federal judge ruled Friday while also barring the provocative, imprisoned ex-CEO from participating in the pharmaceutical industry for

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