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Pharma bro Martin Shkreli sent directly to jail, judge calls him ‘danger to society’

Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli points as he exits the courthouse.
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The pharma bro is now the pharma inmate. 

Martin Shkreli was called a “danger to society” on Wednesday by a judge, who then canceled his bond release and put him in jail, according to numerous media reports.

Shkreli had been out on a $5 million bond following his conviction for securities fraud in early August. 

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Shkreli found himself back in court on Wednesday after publishing a Facebook post in which he called for his followers to get a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair. He promised a $5,000 reward to anyone who delivered the hair.

Shkreli had been awaiting sentencing after his conviction in federal court for misleading investors in his hedge fund, and then using cash and stock from one of his biotech companies to pay them back.

He was found guilty of three counts of securities fraud and acquitted of five other charges.

Brooklyn judge Kiyo Matsumoto at the hearing called Shkreli’s Facebook post a “solicitation of assault.” Clinton is currently on a tour promoting her new book.

Shkreli had apologized for the Facebook post and sent a letter to the judge calling it an “awkward attempt at humor or satire.”

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost exactly two years since Shkreli burst into the national consciousness after his drug company bought up the rights to a generic medication used by AIDS and cancer patients and increased the price from $13.50 to $750. At the time, Clinton, who was on the campaign trail, criticized his company for the price hike on Twitter, as had many others. 

In just a few hours, Shkreli went from a young, unknown business executive to the poster child for everything wrong with the drug industry. He didn’t handle the transition well. 

Since then, Shkreli has remained in the spotlight thanks to his bizarre behavior and public statements. He often livestreams for hours at a time from his apartment and became a popular figure in the so-called “alt right.” He also recently harassed journalists by purchasing internet domains related to their names and mocking them on the sites.

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/09/13/martin-shkreli-jailed-hillary-clinton-hair/

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Martin Shkreli mocks journalists by buying up web domains in their names

Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli points as he exits the courthouse.
Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Martin Shkreli is back at it again, trolling journalists and just being generally awful.

In his latest menacing move, Business Insider reports the pharma bro and owner of this gorgeous website has been trolling journalists who’ve written or tweeted about him by purchasing internet domains related to their names. And to pick scabs, he’s now mocking them on the sites. 

Shkreli reportedly bought several user domains months ago, but has recently been customizing the websites to slander the journalists who share their namesake.

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Since 2017 began, Shkreli has reportedly purchased the domain names associated with 12 people from Business Insider and other outlets like CNBC, Vice, New York Post, Vanity Fair, Teen Vogue, AOL, Bloomberg, Dealbreaker, and Gizmodo.

One of the sites, named after Vanity Fair reporter Maya Kosoff, reads: “Here we honor one of the most vibrant Social Justice advocates today!” And another named after CNBC’s Caroline Moss reads, “Everything you need to know about this CNBC safe-spacer.”

Business Insider reports Shkreli also has a domain for New York Post court reporter Emily Saul, which he reportedly offered to sell to her for the reasonable price of $12,000. 😒 

“I wouldn’t call these people ‘journalists.’ They are the unwitting recipients of liberalism subsidy from large media and telecom companies,” Shkreli said in a statement emailed to the publication, then claiming those whose domain names were purchased are “only a few notches above the white supremacists we hear so much about these days.”

Though this does seem like quite an effort, the 34-year-old is no stranger to publicly confronting members of the media. As you may recall, Twitter permanently banned Shkreli back in May after he violated the platform’s harassment policy by going after Teen Vogue editor Lauren Duca.

Since then Shkreli was probably busy holding out for a New York court to find 12 impartial jurors who didn’t hate his guts and dealing with being found guilty of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

Good luck with everything, dude.

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Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/08/23/martin-shkreli-trolling-journalists-domain-names/