--- title: Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congress Hearing description: Shkreli is testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on pharmaceutical pricing. canonical: https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-04T15:39:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:46:16.026Z article:section: Politics og:title: Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congress Hearing og:description: Shkreli is testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on pharmaceutical pricing. og:url: https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5603b4eeaf2baea/69887c24f887dc118be9474f/martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congress Hearing twitter:description: Shkreli is testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on pharmaceutical pricing. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5603b4eeaf2baea/69887c24f887dc118be9474f/martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congressional Hearing > Sponsored content. 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Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC., during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, February 4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images by [Halimah Abdullah / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Halimah Abdullah / NBC News Feb 4, 2016 3:39 PM UTC Former drug executive Martin Shkreli, who has derided Congress on social media, faced members of that legislative body on Thursday morning during a hearing on pharmaceutical pricing. The normally talkative Shkreli invoked the Fifth Amendment when he appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to discuss his actions in raising the price of Daraprim by more than 5,500 percent. Daraprim, which went from costing $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill, is used to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic condition that can occur in pregnant women and people with the HIV virus. Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz asked Shkreli what he would… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-faces-congress-n511106?cid=par-time%5F20160204) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/"},"headline":"Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congressional Hearing","datePublished":"2016-02-04T15:39:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:46:16.026Z","description":"He was ultimately escorted out of the room","url":"https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/","keywords":["Congress","medicine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5603b4eeaf2baea/69887c24f887dc118be9474f/martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Halimah Abdullah / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5603b4eeaf2baea/69887c24f887dc118be9474f/martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"martin-shkreli-fifth-amendment-congressional-hearing","caption":"Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC., during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, February 4, 2016 in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Mark Wilson/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4207829/martin-shrkeli-fifth-hearing/","name":"Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth Amendment in Congressional Hearing"}}]}] ```