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American hedge fund manager who founded Citadel at age 22 — building it into one of the world's largest and most successful hedge funds — and who started trading from his Harvard dorm room with a satellite dish to receive market data.
American entrepreneur and convicted securities fraudster who became notorious in 2015 for raising the price of the antiparasitic drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per pill as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals — becoming the public face of pharmaceutical price gouging — and who was subsequently convicted of securities fraud.
The hedge fund founded by John Meriwether (and including Nobel laureates Merton and Scholes) that generated extraordinary returns through leveraged arbitrage before losing $4.6B and requiring a Fed-orchestrated bailout in 1998.