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"It
was hacked," Craig Stevens, a spokesman for the former chief
executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, said in an email. "We have
been working with Twitter to get it fixed."
Shkreli, who gained notoriety this year when Turing hiked the
price of an anti-infective drug often taken by people with AIDS,
was arrested on fraud charges on Thursday and released on bail.
He has actively defended his business practices on Twitter,
tweeting as recently as Saturday that the allegations against
him were "baseless."
Stevens said he was checking whether Shkreli's YouTube live
stream, which he had been broadcasting from a day after leaving
jail, had also been hacked.
A series of seven tweets at midday EST on Sunday from Shkreli's
account included: "Anyone want free money? Willing to donate
hundreds of thousands to charities before I go to prison ..."
Another read: "I am now a god", while as others contained
expletives.
A Twitter spokesman said the company does not comment on
individual accounts for privacy and security reasons. YouTube
representatives did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
Shkreli stepped down as CEO of Turing, the company said on
Friday, a day after he was charged with securities fraud,
securities fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy related to
his management of hedge fund MSMB Capital Management and
biopharmaceutical company Retrophin Inc. The maximum sentence
for the top count is 20 years in prison.
The government charges do not include activities at privately
held Turing.
Turing had incited outrage over drug prices earlier this year
after it raised the price of the drug Daraprim to $750 a tablet
from $13.50.
(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf in New York; Editing by Richard
Chang)
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