US regulators sue ‘pharma bro’ Shkreli over drug monopoly

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York’s attorney general have sued incarcerated ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli for allegedly monopolising the market for life-saving drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine).

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