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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 6 March 2018

Jury finds German Judge orders 'Pharma Bro' to forfeit $7.3 million
man was sane who

set California fires By TOM HAYS Monday. Along with the Wu-Tang and another unreleased
Associated Press
Clan "Once Upon a Time in recording that he claims
U.S. District Judge Kiyo Mat-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Ger- NEW YORK (AP) — "Pharma sumoto issued the order Shaolin" album that Shkreli he owns, "Tha Carter V" by
man man who set dozens Bro" Martin Shkreli will have against the jailed Shkreli has boasted he bought for Lil Wayne.
of fires across Los Angeles to forfeit more than $7.3 four days before he is to $2 million, he would have The judge said the assets
during several nights of ter- million in assets that include face sentencing for his con- to give up $5 million in cash won't be seized until Shkreli
ror six years ago to avenge his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang viction last year on charges in a brokerage account. has a chance to appeal.
his mother's deportation Clan album as part of his he cheated wealthy inves- He also would be forced His lawyer didn't immedi-
was sane at the time, a jury punishment in his securities tors in two failed hedge to forfeit other valuables in- ately respond to a request
decided Monday. fraud case, a judge ruled funds he was managing. cluding a Picasso painting for comment.q
Harry Burkhart, 30, was pre-
viously found guilty of near- $7M settlement proposed in jail death from Arpaio era
ly 50 arson counts for fires
he set around New Year's
2012. The officers who arrested
Burkhart made good on him had had an encoun-
threats to "roast America" ter with Atencio earlier
following his mother's ex- that day at a convenience
tradition to Germany on store, where they con-
fraud charges, prosecutors cluded his erratic behavior
said. was the result of mental ill-
He placed fire-starting de- ness, not intoxication. The
vices under cars in Holly- lawsuit accuses a Phoenix
wood, the San Fernando police officer of attack-
Valley and West Hollywood ing Atencio at the jail after
on three different nights, he refused to take off one
authorities said. Some ve- of his shoes. It alleges that
hicles were in carports and Arpaio’s officers joined in
in 19 cases the fires spread and formed a “dog pile”
to homes and apartments. atop the inmate. A sheriff’s
No one was seriously in- officer shot Atencio with
jured during the fires that a Taser, and another later
caused an estimated $3 struck him as other officers
million in damage, but the held him down, accord-
blazes ignited widespread ing to the suit. Earlier, while
fear. In this 2013 photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pauses as he answers a question during being booked at a jail in
a news conference at Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Headquarters in Phoenix. The family of a
A surveillance video cap- mentally ill man who alleges he died after being beaten and shot with a stun gun by law enforce- downtown Phoenix, Aten-
tured an image of the ment officers in one of the Phoenix-area jails run by former Sheriff Joe Arpaio could receive $7 cio was seen talking to a
suspect and a deputy million in a lawsuit settlement. container of peanut butter
U.S. marshal recognized (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) as if it were a person, even
Burkhart as a man who had offering to give up his jack-
made an anti-American By JACQUES BILLEAUD out amount wasn't publicly In one case, the county et to the container, police
outburst during his mother's PHOENIX (AP) — The family revealed until it was listed and its insurance carrier said. His lawyers have said
2011 detention hearing. of a mentally ill man who on a Board of Supervisors paid $8.25 million to settle a he wasn’t acting aggres-
He was arrested after a alleges he died after be- agenda posted Friday. The lawsuit that alleged some sively toward the officers.
volunteer sheriff's deputy ing beaten and shot with settlement is scheduled for of Arpaio's detention of- At the time he died, the
pulled over a van that a stun gun by law enforce- a vote Wednesday. ficers had forced inmate sheriff’s office had said
matched the description ment officers in one of the The deal will resolve le- Scott Norberg into a re- Atencio was combative
of the vehicle the suspect- jails in Phoenix run by former gal claims against Arpaio straint chair and pushed his when police brought him
ed arsonist was seen driv- Sheriff Joe Arpaio could re- and his jail officers, but head into his chest after his to jail. The lawsuit alleges
ing. ceive $7 million in a lawsuit the Phoenix Police Depart- arrest on suspicion of ag- that the officers taunted
Defense attorney Steve settlement. ment, whose officers arrest- gravated assault. Norberg's Atencio for not being able
Schoenfield argued that The case is one of many ed Atencio and were in- 1996 death was ruled acci- to follow directions and
Burkhart was seriously men- lawsuits filed against Ar- volved in his booking at the dental by asphyxiation. encouraged him to make
tally ill and asked jurors to paio, now a candidate for jail, would remain as a tar- Attorney Mike Manning, funny faces while his mug
find him insane. He said a U.S. Senate seat, over get of the lawsuit. The trial is who represents the Atencio shot was taken. One officer
medical records from doc- the treatment of inmates scheduled to start May 15. family and has filed law- allegedly said authorities
tors in Germany, where in county jails during his 24 Arpaio, reached by phone suits over other deaths in should make it the “Mug
Burkhart had lived in Frank- years as metro Phoenix's Monday, was reluctant to county jails, said the culture Shot of the Week,” referring
furt, had documented top law enforcer. Excluding talk about the settlement, in the county’s jails started to a contest in which peo-
mental illness symptoms the $7 million from the pro- saying only that, "It's the to change after Arpaio was ple can vote on their favor-
over many years. posed settlement to be vot- Board of Supervisors' deci- voted out office in Novem- ite booking photo. Daniel
Schoenfield said Burkhart ed on this week, Maricopa sion." ber 2016. “I can say that O’Connor Jr., an attorney
believed his separation County has paid $33 million Arpaio's jailing of inmates this is a cruel end to the Ar- who represents Maricopa
from his mother meant in jail-related legal claims in outdoor tents and other paio era,” Manning said. County, declined com-
the world was coming to that were filed during Arpa- get-tough tactics made Atencio, 44, was arrested in ment on the case Monday,
an end. Burkhart was con- io's six terms as sheriff. Law- him popular with many vot- December 2011 by Phoenix while attorney Kathleen
victed of the arsons in Sep- yers previously disclosed ers, but critics say he cre- police on a misdemeanor Wieneke, who represents
tember 2016, but the jury that Maricopa County had ated a culture of cruelty assault charge after they the city of Phoenix, didn’t
couldn’t reach a verdict tentatively resolved the within the jails that took the say he frightened a woman immediately respond to a
during the sanity phase of lawsuit in the death of Er- lives of inmates and proved by yelling at her and kick- phone call and email seek-
the trial.q nest Atencio, but the pay- costly to the county. ing at her apartment door. ing comment.q