Mealey's (April 30, 2020, 2:20 PM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York should deny convicted fraudster Martin Shrkeli’s request for “compassionate release” to allow him to serve the remainder of his 84-month prison sentence for bilking investors of millions of dollars in investments in home confinement so he can conduct research on a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, federal prosecutors argue in an April 28 opposition brief (United States v. Martin Shkreli, No. 15-cr-637, E.D. N.Y.)....