Martin Shkreli's request to be freed from prison for three months to research a coronavirus cure was blasted by federal prosecutors as the 'same kind of delusional self-aggrandizing behavior' that got him a lengthy sentence in the first place.
Feds slam 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's attempt to leave prison to find COVID-19 cure
"Shkreli has no formal scientific training and no experience working [in] a laboratory setting, and he does not explain why he cannot continue to develop and discuss any ideas he may have about COVID-19 from prison, as he has," prosecutors wrote in their motion to U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto. Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman filed a motion this month asking Matsumoto to release Shkreli to home confinement at his fiancee's New York City apartment, pleading that Shkreli is not a danger to the community and would"potentially help others" find a"potential cure" for, which as of Wednesday had killed more than 200,000 people worldwide among more than 3.1 million infected.
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