Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Blech, once dubbed the "King of Biotech", failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court ...

David Blech, shown in a scene from documentary 'The Blech Effect." Courtesy of Virgil Films EXCLUSIVE: Virgil Films has acquired rights in U.S. and Canada rights to The Blech Effect, which traces the ...

"Where is that money today?" "My money's gone..." Virgil Films has released an official trailer for a very personal documentary titled The Blech Effect, a film profiling the former "King of Biotech" ...

David Blech, the former biotechnology stock promoter who got probation for a 1998 fraud conviction, was sentenced to four years in prison for a similar crime by a judge who angrily rejected his plea ...

He was once hailed as the king of biotechnology. In the industry’s frontier days, David Blech was the top gunslinger, quick to draw his checkbook to start new companies or prop up faltering ones.

Blech built a fortune of more than $300 million after early bets on biotech stocks, gaining recognition as one of the wealthiest Americans in Forbes in 1992, the AP reported. Yet his wealth has ...