What was he charged with? The article doesn't mention it at all other than: >...the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and seven states had accused Shkreli, the founder of Vyera Pharmaceuticals, of using illegal tactics to keep Daraprim rivals out of the market. What he did was shitty but not illegal from my understanding? Edit: Found a little more in some other articles: >They alleged that Vyera hiked the price of Daraprim and illegally created "a web of anticompetitive restrictions" to prevent other companies from creating cheaper generic versions by, among other things, blocking their access to a key ingredient for the medication and data the companies would want in order to evaluate the drug's market potential. It seems like they got him on technicalities and then imposed the maximum fines and sentence they could.