A former lawyer for Martin Shkreli’s companies might be heading to prison after a jury convicted him of scheming with the former biotech executive to defraud a pharmaceutical firm.
Evan Greebel, who advised companies including Retrophin Inc., was found guilty Dec. 27 of helping Shkreli steal $11 million from the company to pay back investors after Shkreli, a hedge-fund-manager-turned-drug-executive, lost their money in risky trades.
Greebel was expressionless as the verdict was read in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. His wife, sitting in the gallery, burst into tears.
“We’re just shocked by the decision,” Reed Brodsky, a partner at Gibson, ...
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