A US court has sentenced former pharmaceutical industry tycoon Martin Shakeel, who was convicted of fraud to a group of investors, to seven years in prison.
The former businessman burst into tears during the trial session when he was jailed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
Shkreli was convicted in 2017 of sending false statements to investors while he suffered heavy losses in two investment funds he managed.
The pharmaceutical industry was widely known for its bad reputation in 2015 for raising the price of vital medicines to insane patients.
His lawyer asked the judge to punish him for only 12 to 18 months, while the prosecution demanded at least 15 years.
Shkreli's lawyer, Benjamin Bravhan, told the judge on Friday: "I still beg you. "There is a time when I want a hug (my client) to please him, another time when I want to punch him in the face.
Shkreli said, suddenly apologetic: there is no plot to overthrow Shkreli. "I am the one who toppled Martin Choukrieli with my shameful and shameful behavior.
In 2015, Pharma Pro, the former chief executive of drug maker Pharma Pro, which issued the news headlines after founding the drug company Turing, raised the price of Darprem, an anti-parasitic drug, by 5,000 percent to $ 750 per tablet.
This drug is used in the treatment of AIDS patients, pregnant women, and geriatric diseases. Drug price manipulation is not illegal or even uncommon in the US pharmaceutical industry.
Shkreli became an example for other companies to raise prices, the title of "Pharma Pro" and "the most hated person in America."
In December 2017, Shkreli was convicted of manipulating stock market prices and embezzling millions of dollars from two investment funds he managed - MSMB Capital and MSM Healthcare.
The former pharmaceutical industry tycoon was convicted of the charges and manipulated to boost the market price of Retrovir, which he founded in 2011.
Before pronouncing the sentence, Braverman told the judge that Shkreli was a "broken person" suffering from depression and anxiety.
During his trial last year, Shakrieli described the prosecution as an "emerging squash team" in spontaneous statements to reporters covering the trial.
The prosecution filed a request to ban journalists from attending the hearings but the judge rejected it.
After his jury was convicted in August, Shkreli was released on bail pending trial.
But a month later, social networking users were offered a $ 5,000 reward for a part of the poetry of former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who has long attacked her in her campaign.
A US judge annulled his release and put him in prison.