From Kevin Underhill’s Lowering the Bar, a bullet list that brings me up to date (I hadn’t even begun dating this) with what’s going on in the Martin Shkreli, The (Allegedly) Most Reviled Man in America, trial. (I was just going to publish this when I realized…”The [Allegedly] Most Reviled Man in America”? Uh, well maybe not. But Shkreli is the second most reviled…well, maybe not. Pick a number, stick him in, he’ll fit somewhere.)
The one thing I had noticed was The Smirk as displayed in all newspaper photos of Shkreli, and I was figuring Shkreli’s lawyers were in deep all-night debates about What To Do With That Smirk. I.e., how to explain it to the jury.
Neatest thing about Kevin’s post here is that it compacts the entire thing into this–and brings me astounding info about the Wu-Tang Clan. I know nothing about the Wu-Tang Clan except it’s name. Whatever it is. Which is, I suspect, a group with some musical genre connections.
A Few Signs That Martin Shkreli Might Be In Some Trouble
Jun 29, 2017 09:32 am | Kevin
- Is also known for spending $2 million to buy the only copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album and saying he would destroy it unless Trump won
- Later released tracks from that album, but only in videos showing him with the album playing in the background
- Smirked his way through a congressional oversight hearing on drug prices
- Took the Fifth on everything, including a question about the Wu-Tang album
- Lawyers “struggled to seat an impartial jury” partly because he is so widely hated
- One potential juror was excused after saying “The only thing I would be impartial about is which prison he goes to”
- Another “mimicked wringing [his] neck“
- Another complained that Skreli “disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan”
- Another was excused after stating that Skreli “kind of looks like a dick“
- Was described during opening statements as “strange,” “weird,” “nuts,” “dysfunctional,” “aggravating,” and “not 100 percent accurate“
- And that was his own lawyer
More to come, most likely.