IIRC the price increase wasn't just arbitrary profit maximizing, that narrative was a character assassination by the media to facilitate a later conviction for some completely unrelated hedge fund priors. Everyone thinks he went to jail for the drug stuff, which wasn't the case, this was a political operation.
The drug itself was acquired from a company that otherwise was going to have to stop production of it... so his companies acquisition of it was to make it sustainable else it'd have left the market altogether.
IIRC the price increase wasn't just arbitrary profit maximizing, that narrative was a character assassination by the media to facilitate a later conviction for some completely unrelated hedge fund priors. Everyone thinks he went to jail for the drug stuff, which wasn't the case, this was a political operation.
The drug itself was acquired from a company that otherwise was going to have to stop production of it... so his companies acquisition of it was to make it sustainable else it'd have left the market altogether.