re: #3 Joe Bacon 🌹

And L’il Shkreli has just been convicted of fraud. Guess we’ll see that Wu Tang Clan LP going up for sale on eBay real soon…

As for punishment, it appears that the stocks are still legal in this country.

In United States v. Gementera, the defendant was convicted of mail theft and sentenced, among other measures, to stand in front of a post office for eight hours wearing a sandwich board that read: “I stole mail. This is my punishment.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld this sentence, finding that the district court did not impose it solely for the purpose of humiliation, but also to serve the criminal-justice goals of deterrence and rehabilitation. The Ninth Circuit further found that the alternative sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment because it was “within the limits of civilized standards” and was not coupled with a lengthy prison sentence. Gementera suggests, in short, that the U.S. Constitution permits judges to sentence a criminal to the stocks in at least some cases.

In 1989 the Arkansas town of Dermott passed a curfew law punishable by up to thirty days in jail for the offender and up to two days in the stocks for the offender’s parents. The city almost immediately removed the stockade punishment because, among other things, the city did not have a stockade and had allocated no funds to build one.[

Normally I would be against humiliating punishments like this, but this is the Pharma Bro we are talking about. Worth a try anyway.