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:
"Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges" https://t.co/7IdehqwGFY pic.twitter.com/aIeTEsojTq
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/thecajunboy/status/677492214809759745
Martin Shkreli got arrested pic.twitter.com/vgBfOc0NqZ
— Ike Barinholtz (@ikebarinholtz) December 17, 2015
If I ever get arrested by the FBI, my only hope is that I'll have the foresight to be wearing my Unabomber hoodie. https://t.co/dTzk4EOXau
— BSharp (@OneHappySt) December 17, 2015
Can't wait for Martin Shkreli to try to hike the price of prison cigarettes 7000%.
— pantagrapher (@pantagrapher) December 17, 2015
🎵His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his hoodie already; Martin Shkreli🎵 pic.twitter.com/4mKvrOj8wp— Sean Gentille (@seangentille) December 17, 2015
I'm less interested in Martin Shkreli than in the people who met him and thought he should run their company.
— Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini) December 17, 2015
so what becomes of that Wu Tang Cd? https://t.co/v2QxMAtPOp *snickers*
— ?st (@questlove) December 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/dickfundy/status/677565080234426368
REPORTER: Mr. President, are federal agents going to seize Shkreli's Wu Tang album?
OBAMA: What kind of question is —
*biden tenses up*
— Parker Higgins (@xor) December 17, 2015
Sitting in a Tokyo bar, trying to come up with the perfect Martin Shkreli tweet.
— Todd Barry (@toddbarry) December 17, 2015
Bobby Shmurda's face when Martin Shkreli got arrested. pic.twitter.com/uikNEXFt7I
— KPinMaine (@kyyuulle) December 17, 2015
Today's news is like the beginning of a joke: Bar Rafaeli, Martin Shkreli and Screech show up at prison…
— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) December 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/seanoconnz/status/677562009085341696
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus: https://t.co/MEzMQ8KlUh
— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) December 17, 2015