Ex-Biglaw Partner Gets 18 Months in Prison for Role in Shkreli Fraud
The New York Post reports that the former lawyer who helped “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli defraud investors landed just one and a half years in prison Friday — but will have to fork over more than $10 million in restitution and forfeitures.
Brooklyn federal court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said Evan Greebel’s conduct was “egregious” and he played a “crucial role” in Shkreli’s scheme to defraud his hedge-fund investors after he lost all their money in a bad trade.
In addition to the prison time, the disbarred attorney will have to pay $10,447,979 in restitution to Retrophin and forfeit $116,464.03 in ill-gotten gains to the government, writes reporter Emily Saul.
Greebel is a former partner at Kaye Scholer and Katten Muchin Rosenman.
