Martin Shkreli Is Jailed for Seeking a Hair From Hillary Clinton<br />Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive who is awaiting sentencing for a fraud conviction, was sent to jail on Wednesday after a federal judge revoked his bail<br />because he had offered $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair.<br />Although Mr. Shkreli edited the post to say that he had meant it to be satirical, and he later took it down altogether, prosecutors contended<br />that there was a risk that one of Mr. Shkreli’s social media followers would take the post seriously and act on it.<br />Mr. Shkreli’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, argued at the hearing<br />that Mr. Shkreli was not violent and that the post had been “a momentary lapse in judgment.”<br />Mr. Shkreli, he said, deserved another chance.<br />At the hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto said that Mr. Shkreli’s post could be perceived as a true threat.<br />Mr. Shkreli, 34, gained notoriety as a pharmaceutical executive for increasing the price of a lifesaving drug, Daraprim, by 5,000 percent.<br />“Will pay $5,000 per hair obtained from Hillary Clinton.”<br />Sign up to receive an email from as soon as important news breaks around the world.<br />Mr. Shkreli’s online offer last week prompted prosecutors to request that his bail be revoked — and the Secret Service to investigate.
