The Internet Reacted With Unrestrained Glee At The News Of Martin Shkreli’s Arrest

Turing Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli Arrested For Securities Fraud
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As you are likely aware, Turing Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli was arrested on charges of securities fraud Thursday morning. Being that we don’t know much about the case the federal government has built against him yet, we’ll just have to giddily await for details to leak in the coming days and weeks. So, for now, we’ve got little else to do besides celebrate that the man who gouged the price of a crucial, life-saving drug more than 5,000% is at least temporarily behind bars.

Keeping that in mind, the internet reacted pretty much exactly how you’d expect, with people beside themselves over the delicious irony. Here are some of our favorite reactions:

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