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Letter: Trial focused on wrong victims

By Davis Evans, VANCOUVER
Published: August 2, 2017, 6:00am

I am writing about the fraud trial of Martin Shkreli (Associated Press, “Shkreli’s fraud trial ends; no verdict yet”), which I read about in The Columbian on Aug. 1.

The problem with the trial was that it had the wrong victims. The real victims weren’t the other investors who were trying to make a killing on the overpricing of drugs. The real victims were the people who need the lifesaving drug.

The other investors may or may not have lost money. They were just trying to get in on the scheme. He raised the price of an essential lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent.

His crime wasn’t just against these investors. His crime was against the thousands of people who need this drug to survive.

I hope that there will be another trial and that he will be prosecuted for his real crime, criminally profiting off the misfortune of others.

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