# Let the schadenfreude begin: Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692 "2015-12-17T14:21:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/61 "2016-02-04T18:42:05Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Although he’s pleading the 5th, apparently that does not extend to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). Legal dopers: would bringing this up be unallowable hearsay? What if he said the opposite? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/62 "2016-02-04T18:42:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > No, with a golden parachute. Made of real gold. That lands on his smashed carcass and drives it 15 feet into the granite. Even better: He has a normal, functional parachute. But thanks to plot-related machinations, there’s a bunch of gold bars on the plane. Bond dumps them out and they land on top of him, collapsing the parachute and sending him plummeting to his doom. Bond then quips, “How’s that for a golden parachute?” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/63 "2016-02-04T18:53:15Z")
Nice touch. It needed the quip. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/64 "2016-02-04T18:58:21Z")
The parachute manufacturer raised the price of parachutes so high that Shkreli couldn’t afford one. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/65 "2016-02-04T19:00:58Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Although he’s pleading the 5th, apparently that does not extend to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). Damn, he has a lot of fanboys on Twitter. I wonder how many of them are real. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/66 "2016-02-04T19:21:45Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Smirking appears to be his default facial expression. Most people who do that get it punched out of them in childhood, but I guess that never happened to him. You’ve heard of “resting bitch face”? Maybe he’s got resting smirk face. Like, say, The Joker. It’s an unfortunate congenital disability that in no way indicates supervillainy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/67 "2016-02-04T19:32:37Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Damn, he has a lot of fanboys on Twitter. I wonder how many of them are real. Feel free to poke the bear. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/68 "2016-02-04T19:36:24Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Feel free to poke the bear. 😉 Is that a reference to something? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/69 "2016-02-04T19:42:57Z")
He’s got a Truly Natural Douche Face; all he needs is a greasy “cliff-hair” doo, and he could win “Douche Of The Century”. Something bad Really ought to happen to him. > [@silenus](#): > > No, with a golden parachute. Made of real gold. That lands on his smashed carcass and drives it 15 feet into the granite. We have to think of the consequences though: “Hey, we have a problem with that new shipment of granite for those counter tops.” “Whats wrong…?” “Someone dropped an asshole face-first into the stone. I’ve had the shop guys scrubbing for an hour, but we just can’t get the “douche-face” out.” “Can we blame it on the shipper?” “No.” “Dammit. Whose going to want to cook food with “douche-face” staring up at them from the counter!?” “Maybe you can sell it at diet-enhancing? I mean, I lost my appetite looking at it…” ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/70 "2016-02-04T21:27:13Z")
He kind of strikes me as an older and douchier Joffrey Baratheon. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/71 "2016-02-04T21:34:03Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > He kind of strikes me as an older and douchier Joffrey Baratheon. No. He’s a LOT more Brian Hallisay than that… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/72 "2016-02-05T02:24:13Z")
So we’re posting snark about his ugly face now? Hey, I was first! I posted the following, earlier in this thread, and I’ll post it again here: > [@Senegoid](#): > > Associated Press has an article on the subject, [as republished on Yahoo News](http://news.yahoo.com/turing-ceo-martin-shkreli-custody-securities-probe-133722669--finance.html), with another picture of him in his shadowy sinister-looking hoodie. > > I immediately noticed the unmistakable resemblance to [this guy](http://static.tumblr.com/ef79c8222fcddf4e6e15f040ead17823/infojte/EHvnwzv26/tumblr_static_pfdvt6s0tog448kcowo8sc0s.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/73 "2016-02-05T02:34:36Z")
I don’t know, he’s still a major d-bag but he scored some points in my book today with what he called our [Congresscritters](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/695264859907317761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/74 "2016-02-05T02:54:21Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I don’t know, he’s still a major d-bag but he scored some points in my book today with what he called our [Congresscritters](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/695264859907317761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). He is an asshole, trying to make money from folks dying from AIDS to pay of his illegal actions. He can go to hell, and suck satan’s scaly cock for eternity. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/75 "2016-02-05T03:11:36Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I don’t know, he’s still a major d-bag but he scored some points in my book today with what he called our [Congresscritters](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/695264859907317761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). So it impresses you that he called people trying to hold him to account for his actions names? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/76 "2016-02-05T03:30:13Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I don’t know, he’s still a major d-bag but he scored some points in my book today with what he called our [Congresscritters](https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/695264859907317761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). Insulting politicians is all it takes to make you like someone? There’s literally not a single person in this country who hasn’t talked shit about politicians at some point, and the vast majority of us are not also price gouging frauds. Jesus, it’s not even a particularly good burn. You need to raise your standards for what impresses you. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/77 "2016-02-05T03:44:31Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Maybe he’s got resting smirk face. Like, say, The Joker. It’s an unfortunate congenital disability that in no way indicates supervillainy. Right. In this case it is pure coincidental that he actually is a supervillain. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/78 "2016-02-05T04:52:42Z")
On the bright side, there’s the possibility that we could get some serious pharmaceutical legislation/regulation out of this. He’s such a good villain that perhaps Congress will unite and breeze something through just to spite the little motherfucker. He douchenozzlery might make him a hero after all. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/79 "2016-02-05T04:58:05Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > On the bright side, there’s the possibility that we could get some serious pharmaceutical legislation/regulation out of this. He’s such a good villain that perhaps Congress will unite and breeze something through just to spite the little motherfucker. He douchenozzlery might make him a hero after all. This. I was kind of surprised that even the GOP members of the committee seemed to find him disgusting. (Gowdy and Chaffetz, whom I usually can’t stand to look at for more than a few seconds, actually had my sympathy dealing with this ass. And his reactions to Cummings’ words made me want to _back_ his _pfeifen_ but hard.) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692/80 "2016-02-05T05:33:21Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > This. I was kind of surprised that even the GOP members of the committee seemed to find him disgusting. (Gowdy and Chaffetz, whom I usually can’t stand to look at for more than a few seconds, actually had my sympathy dealing with this ass. And his reactions to Cummings’ words made me want to _back_ his _pfeifen_ but hard.) Yeah but the Republicans’ reasons for not liking him were probably more related to him ripping off wealthy investors. Then again, maybe they realize that even their base hates this guy and are acting accordingly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-schadenfreude-begin-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/740692.md?page=5)