I'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

I'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.