In a Healthcare summit hosted by Forbes on Thursday, Martin Shkreli, the founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, admitted he made a mistake by raising the price of a decades-old drug by more than 5,000 percent. But it’s not the mistake you might expect.
Source: Turing’s Martin Shkreli regrets 5,000% price hike—says it wasn’t high enough | Ars Technica
In these stash-house cases, the Government’s “participation in the offense conduct” is what makes them particularly repugnant to the Constitution. Everything about the scheme—and therefore almost everything bearing upon a defendant’s ultimate sentence—hinges solely on the Government’s whim. Why were there not 10 kilograms in the stash house? Or 100? Or 1,000? Why were the guards allegedly armed—necessitating that Defendants bring weapons along with them? All of these factors came down to the ATF and the undercover agent alone. That sort of arbitrariness offends the Constitution’s due-process demands.
Lockheed Martin tells investors it will see “indirect benefits” from the war in Syria. Raytheon notes “a significant uptick.”
Source: Defense Contractors Cite “Benefits” of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
A federal judge in Minnesota has ordered one of the men behind the notorious Prenda Law group to liquidate his assets. Paul Hansmeier must now sell his condominium, among other assets, in order to pay back $2.5 million of debts more quickly rather than having the case drag out for years.
Source: Judge: Prenda lawyer must sell condo, liquidate assets to pay $2.5M debt | Ars Technica
Taser claims its products are safe. But if that’s true, wonders a new documentary, why do people keep dying?
A comment to this story hit the bullseye:
In the 1980s we passed forfeiture laws to battle the largest criminals but look where we are now. If you want to know how the special powers we’re giving government to battle terrorism will end up, just look at this program.
Source: The Nation’s Criminals Can’t Keep Up With The Government’s Legalized Theft Programs | Techdirt
If you get a letter through the post accusing you of Internet piracy, you must be guilty. That’s the message from most copyright trolls and infuriatingly, even some ‘neutral’ lawyers commenting on these cases. But while it might seem daunting, putting up a fight is not only the right thing to do, but can also cause claimants to back off.
Source: No Copyright Trolls, Your Evidence Isn’t Flawless – TorrentFreak
This is neither ignorant nor unreasonable, just an extremely good post from Wil Wheaton that everyone should read.
I had this epiphany at the beginning of September: This thing that I’m doing? This series of choices I make every day? It isn’t working. I don’t like the way I feel, I don’t like the way I look, I don’t like the things I’m doing. Things need to change.
Source: | Seven Things I Did To Reboot My LifeWIL WHEATON dot NET
Fang described how Koch’s interest in criminal justice reform was sparked not by the plight of overcrowded prisons or racial disparities in law enforcement, but by federal and state probes of the company’s own environmental crimes.
Source: Koch “Alliance” on Criminal Justice Reform Exposed as Trojan Horse
