The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

Because there has already been plenty. Today's update:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/06/28/he-was-born-this-way-martin-shkrelis-attorney-offers-defense-as-securities-trial-opens/?utm_term=.7ec1f7495d98

The trial got off to a slow start as lawyers struggled to seat an impartial jury. Over three days, more than 250 prospective candidates were dismissed for their views of the defendant.

One juror said Wednesday: “The only thing I would be impartial about is which prison he goes to.” Another said he didn’t like Shkreli and “I don’t understand why someone would take a medication that people need and jack up the price.” The potential jurors voice was shaking as he turned to Shkreli and raised his fist. “I would just go over there … is he just stupid or crazy?,” the potential juror said.

“He is probably guilty and there is no way I can let him slide,” a third potential juror said. He then added that he didn’t like that Shkreli had been disrespectful to the Wu Tang Clan.

last sentence there is key

more than 250 prospective candidates were dismissed for their views of the defendant.

This is fuckin hilarious!

bookmarked

if the fuckin enron defendants couldn't get a change of venue this fuckin guy shouldn't

He then added that he didn’t like that Shkreli had been disrespectful to the Wu Tang Clan.

should be on the supreme court

i judge wisely, as if nothin ever surprise me

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2017/06/pharma_bro_145903290-copy-1498607052-640x400.jpg

this is gonna be such a shit Scorsese movie

OsamaThumbsUp.jpg

OMG, that sketch is hilar. And somehow better at capturing Shkreli's true essence than any mere photograph.

Something about the confirmation that he's no less smug on trial than at any other point in his day-to-day existence is both breathtaking and completely unsurprising.

It came without ribbons!... it came without tags!... it came without packages, boxes, or bags!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ec/94/8f/ec948f14ee6e6924765e0db581d0dde4.jpg

I wonder if any potential jurors were dismissed for voicing admiration for him.

Fuck this guy
(Sorry but someone had to say it)

https://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gollum-serkis.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPmtM3rWsAAhUtN.jpg

Smooth.

Shkreli mocked the prosecution team from Brooklyn as the “junior varsity” to the federal prosecutors in Manhattan. https://t.co/uyjHJyK9UZ

— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) June 30, 2017

As was further noted

The point isn't that this will anger the prosecutors (spoiler: they wake up angry). The point is it may anger the judge https://t.co/lCne33zIC4

— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) June 30, 2017

So glad that both leprechaun and gollum were posted in response to that sketch because they were though #1 and #2 microseconds apart

Found guilty!

Sentence this pig fucker to twenty to life

that was quick

reaaaaaallly hope he does prison time

he will not do well in gen pop

"We, the jury, wish to award Bill Murray all of Shkreli's assets, especially the Wu Tang album."

looooooool

Can he be sentenced to that Superman II space mirror? https://t.co/7ydF4BIkPu

— Joseph Hughes (@nczeitgeist) August 4, 2017

This is a fine day. Now to see the Fyre Festival bro suffer the same fate.

no way is this dude actually going to prison, right?

hoping that people are treated poorly in prison is a shitty, shitty look imo

What JCLC said.

Guilty on three counts, not guilty on five.

who cares about looks, it's a shitty frame of mind, period

Martin Shkreli was so unappealing and obnoxious that the DOJ convicted him of a white collar crime. https://t.co/DYvTHXZtGB

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) August 4, 2017

c'mon now, I'm not gonna drop my "wishing terrible things on terrible people" schtick for this asshole

See, now this is how the wheels of cosmic justice are supposed to turn wrt completely irredeemable rich white assholes.

Cosmic or comic?

Why not both?

What's going to be great is if this is the one guy Trump pardons, for no particular reason.

SHHHH don't give him any ideas

Whaddaya mean, 'for no reason'? Do you even realize how many positions he still has unfilled in his administration?

Martin Shkreli, Surgeon General

who cares about looks, it's a shitty frame of mind, period

ordinarily i'd agree but this dude's exterior matches his interior so perfectly that it's hard not to comment on it

I just

Martin Shkreli's reaction when his lawyer says he is a "brilliant young man but sometimes people skills don't translate well" pic.twitter.com/vUCvL8un73

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) August 4, 2017

who cares about looks, it's a shitty frame of mind, period
ordinarily i'd agree but this dude's exterior matches his interior so perfectly that it's hard not to comment on it

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Friday, August 4, 2017 12:21 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was referring to this:

hoping that people are treated poorly in prison is a shitty, shitty look imo

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, August 4, 2017 11:53 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm just nitpicking the whole "don't do this because it makes you look bad", when it should be more like "don't do this because it's mean and being mean is bad", but it really doesn't matter i guess.

trump called this guy a brat or something iirc

xxpost He was clearly just providing a visual aid.

Prison is bad enough without extra indignities befalling you. But this dude was eventually going to get punched in the face no matter what, prison or no. So I guess it's going to happen in prison.

Abolish prisons!!!!

*sees Shkreli going to jail*

my position on this issue has evolved

— sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) August 4, 2017

^^^^^^^

If, in terms of demographics and temperament and criminal leanings, prisons were comprised mostly of Shkrelis, I would likely feel much differently about prisons.

i'm guessing she insisted on correcting this point because it is a huge priority for _him_

i also don't know if it's going too far to insist you should be careful using the word "lunatic" to describe someone especially a woman

Shkreli heads (like those dumbass college kids in the story) and Trump faithful occupy a very similar territory in my head

see also online Musk stans.

Seems to me that this kind of behavior is best filed under Duly Noted and not thought about for too long. Or so I have heard.

pic.twitter.com/dyMmMFkoEL

— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) December 21, 2020

Ah, so there's a new NEW piece.

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35036400/christie-smythe-stephanie-clifford-martin-shkreli-story/

heh, maybe we’re the suckers. she’ll have a gofundme up by the end of the week

Basically this woman seems like someone I don’t want to be around but… she also hasn’t really done anything other than be a little bit of a(n arguably self-destructive) dick? I wouldn’t be surprised if she regrets this later but the only person in this scenario she’s currently hurting is herself and I kind of… don’t care?

This article was especially bizarre since it didn't mention that he's been engaged for the past year (to Maureen Lohry).

I also noticed Christie Smythe has redacted Maureen Lohry from images (e.g. Smythe's pinned tweet). It's so bizarre.

Wait what

Maureen Lohry and Shkreli dated after the arrest. They became engaged sometime after he started his sentence. Lohry has been controlling a lot of his assets (i.e. weird pharma scams), e.g. she's the current CEO of Prospero.

Trying to make Spinal Tap joke about The New New Originals.

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

Besides the fried chicken kiss.

wait if you're Albanian you get free wine?

Enver Hoxha's greatest triumph

lol

I feel like there's an episode of Jonathan Creek a bit like this

Albanian kind of strange language.

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, December 21, 2020 6:58 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

good point...

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

Is this a joke? She helped his attorney file a affidavit in Federal court that they were in a relationship and would be living with her upon his release.

an affidavit

And you were on Clubhouse last night. I’m so out of it, I don’t know what that is. What is Clubhouse?

That was wild. I didn't know what Clubhouse was; I should’ve Googled it. Apparently it's some Silicon Valley thing and it had some association with trolls, and I didn't know that offhand. Somebody invited me to go because they said they were talking about me. And I said, okay, sure. The moderator was great. She was very promoting of respect. And it actually was a very good and healthy discussion, I think.

Glad this was cleared up.

Fun fact: the worst wine I've ever had was in Albania. It tasted like brine.

seventeen glasses
brine wine

It takes a heart like Christie's these days when your man gets weak.

the story of the year makes it into the paper of record

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/media/martin-shkreli-christie-smythe.html#click=https://t.co/wJFHGIhe6T

i don't like that this is THE STORY OF THE MOMENT when we're all dying but i guess that's clickbait (tm)

the pharma bro story did not include the bit where she was like 'my man will save us from the coronavirus' pic.twitter.com/ktsq2EpOXU

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) December 21, 2020

If I understand her correctly, I believe she's asserting that he knows so much about viruses because he is, himself, a virus.

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, Martin Shkreli" - my head all day

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

what? I'm a news reporter for a bloomberg rival who also regularly covers court and nothing about Smythe and Shkreli's relationship as described is normal in any sense of the word.

I know most TV and films seem to think all female journalists sleep/flirt with their sources and I'm so sorry this story seems to feed into that bs, but come the fuck on.

Ms. Smythe said she had no regrets about how she had dealt with the ethically perilous issue of covering someone she had developed feelings for. “In journalism school, they don’t really tell you what to do when this comes up,” she said. “I just tried to muddle through it and handle things as best as I could.”

This quote from her in the NYT story is also... gah. If you start developing romantic feelings for your source, you take yourself off the story or end the relationship, jfc.

United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album Forfeited by Convicted Hedge Fund Manager Martin Shkreli https://t.co/hVHDk9nH4h

— US Attorney EDNY (@EDNYnews) July 27, 2021

i bought it, selling listens for $50/listen

YSI?

Don't know how I forgot about the reporter in a 'relationship' with Shkreli. Guess she's was still completely snowed as of a couple months back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wvdtiEv-qo

A blast from the past!

BREAKING:

Martin Shkreli must pay a $64.6 million fine and is BANNED FOR LIFE from "participating in the pharmaceutical industry in any capacity," a federal judge ruled.

DEVELOPING story, @LawCrimeNews. https://t.co/WZ3owSJGYX pic.twitter.com/t8aSYXU6ar

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) January 14, 2022

lmao

I wonder if he still wears that smirk all the time.

if only they did this to every monopolist

how creative are judges allowed to get with injunctions, exactly? can they require him to release Once Upon A Time in Shaolin?

It’s already been sold to some bullshit crypto wankers.

He never owned the rights to release it, just a CD.

it's just a 60 minute version of "Got Your Money" anyway

apparently the case was pretty badly banged up

lol that this dude was sitting in prison during the insane runup of crypto

And he's out and about (and per the post above, just in time to totally miss crypto's bubble):

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pharma-bro-Martin-Shkreli-released-from-17182037.php

back in the game

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/judge-martin-shkreli-to-turn-over-all-copies-of-wu-tang-clan-album/507-8d7c0d1f-7fc7-47a1-9f12-191464a2b1f6

lol "RELEASE THE WU!"