Martin Shkreli’s Ex-Lawyer Is Convicted of Fraud<br />The lawyer, Evan Greebel, who was outside counsel to Mr. Shkreli’s former drug company, Retrophin, was found guilty<br />by a jury in Brooklyn of charges he conspired to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, prosecutors said.<br />“We will continue to fight for justice for Evan Greebel and his family.”<br />A different jury found Mr. Shkreli guilty in August of defrauding hedge fund investors,<br />but cleared him of conspiring with Mr. Greebel to steal from Retrophin.<br />Martin Shkreli steal millions of dollars and cover up Shkreli’s fraud, the defendant Evan Greebel betrayed<br />the trust placed in him by Retrophin’s board of directors to represent the company’s best interests.”<br />Mr. Shkreli, 34, became notorious in 2015 when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals,<br />he raised the price of the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim to $750 a pill, from $13.50.<br />A lawyer who once advised the former drug company executive Martin Shkreli was convicted<br />on Wednesday of helping Mr. Shkreli defraud a pharmaceutical company.<br />The charges he and Mr. Greebel faced were related to Mr. Shkreli’s management of, Retrophin<br />and of two hedge funds he ran, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, from 2009 to 2014.<br />Mr. Greebel was charged with assisting Mr. Shkreli in defrauding Retrophin through a series of settlement and sham consulting agreements.
