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Consider too that SBF (and likewise Bernie Madoff) stole from the upper classes, and Epstein had damaging information on many of them. Doesn't explain Shkreli b
by throwawayyall 2y ago
Consider too that SBF (and likewise Bernie Madoff) stole from the upper classes, and Epstein had damaging information on many of them. Doesn't explain Shkreli but then even a stopped (analog) clock is right twice a day.
Update: Perhaps the thing with Shkreli is that he did something pretty egregious that was drawing heat from the commoners, and to the rest of the upper class, he's a foreigner with a funny name who grew up poor and has vulgar tastes. If you have to give up the occasional sacrifice, better someone like him than your old roommate from Phillips Exeter.
- pydry 2y agoI'm fairly sure that Shkreli's crime was being a bit too showy and blatant and drawing too much attention to drugs racketeering as a whole. I think if he'd done it a bit more quietly he'd have easily gotten away with it. The extremeness on his part was just the drama that surrounded him. I reckon if any of the Boeing execs responsible for the crash made waves at outrageous parties or went on TV and bragged their crimes with cocaine still up their nose then they'd probably get grudgingly thrown under the bus too. It mirrors the way Prince Andrew was coddled until he did that idiotic interview and then the royal family decided to downgrade him to "still fully protected from criminal prosecution" but cut out of the family business.