Martin Shkreli, ‘Pharma Bro,’ Prepares for Trial: ‘I’m So Innocent’<br />The trial is expected to last six weeks.<br />Asked for a comment, a lawyer for Mr. Shkreli, Benjamin Brafman, said, “Because of the many complicated<br />issues in this trial, I am intent on doing all of my commenting in the courtroom, not in the press.”<br />Mr. Shkreli is a curious mix of blue-collar-boy-made-good and attention seeker — particularly when that attention is negative.<br />The indictment contends that Mr. Shkreli lied to investors<br />and potential investors about the funds’ performance, about how much money investors had put into the funds, and about how much he withdrew from the funds for himself.<br />Called before Congress last year to testify at a hearing on drug prices — after his indictment, when some public sympathy might have helped — Mr. Shkreli invoked the Fifth Amendment, smirked through the hearing, and afterward tweeted, “Hard to accept<br />that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.”<br />Derisively called a “pharma bro” on social media, Mr. Shkreli now uses PharmaBroMS as his handle in League of Legends.<br />He created settlements between MSMB investors and Retrophin without board approval,<br />and made up sham consulting agreements with MSMB investors so that Retrophin routed them money.
