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Saturday 10 March 2018

Gunman takes hostages at party at largest US veterans home

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Larry Kamer told The Asso-
JANIE HAR ciated Press that his wife,
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Devereaux Smith, was at
A gunman slipped into an the party and told him by
employee going-away phone that the gunman
party at the largest vet- had entered the room qui-
erans home in the United etly, letting some people
States and took at least leave while taking others
three people hostage Fri- hostage. Smith, a fundraiser
day, leading to a lockdown for the nonprofit Pathway
of the sprawling grounds in Home, was still inside the
California, authorities and facility's dining hall and was
family members said. not allowed to leave, he
California Highway Patrol said. The Pathway Home,
Sgt. Robert Nacke told re- a privately run program
porters that he knew of on the veteran home's
no injuries, and authorities grounds, treats veterans of
gave no immediate in- the Iraq and Afghanistan
formation about the gun- wars with post-traumatic
man or his motive. Police stress disorder.
evacuated the property An armored police vehicle,
of the Veterans Home of A Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter stages on the Vintners Golf Club near the entrance to the ambulances and several
California after reports of Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., on Friday, March 9, 2018. A gunman took at least fire trucks were at the facil-
a man with a gun at the three people hostage at the largest veterans home in the United States on Friday, leading to a ity, which is home to about
lockdown of the sprawling grounds in California, authorities said.
facility in Yountville, one of (AP Photo/Ben Margot) 1,000 residents. “I don’t
Napa Valley's most upscale know the world we live in
towns in the heart of North- "We do have an active tage situation in Yountville," John Fransen told KTVU-TV today, I really don’t,” she
ern California wine country. shooter situation with a hos- Highway Patrol Officer of San Francisco. said.q
'Pharma Bro' gets 7 years in prison in fraud case

By COLLEEN LONG ing Martin Shkreli was sen- bad boy vilified for jacking lie." The judge insisted that the
TOM HAYS tenced to seven years in up the price of a lifesaving He also said: "The only per- punishment was not about
Associated Press prison for securities fraud drug. son to blame for me being Shkreli's online antics or his
NEW YORK (AP) — The smirk Friday in a hard fall for the Shkreli, the boyish-looking, here today is me. There raising the cost of the drug.
wiped off his face, a cry- pharmaceutical-industry 34-year-old entrepreneur is no conspiracy to take "This case is not about Mr.
dubbed the "Pharma Bro" down Martin Shkreli. I took Shkreli's self-cultivated pub-
for his loutish behavior, was down Martin Shkreli." lic persona ... nor his con-
handed his punishment af- In the end, U.S. District troversial statements about
ter a hearing in which he Judge Kiyo Matsumoto politics or culture," Matsu-
Paradise in the Caribbean and his attorney struggled gave him a sentence that moto said.
with limited success to fell well short of the 15 years But she did say his conduct
make him a sympathetic prosecutors wanted but after the verdict made her
figure. His own lawyer con- was a lot longer than the 18 doubt the sincerity of his re-
fessed to wanting to punch months his lawyer asked for. morse. She cited his brag-
him in the face sometimes. He was also fined $75,000. ging after the verdict that
The defendant hung his Shkreli was found guilty in he would be sentenced to
head and choked up as August of lying to investors time served. And she quot-
he admitted to many mis- in two failed hedge funds ed one piece of correspon-
takes and apologized to and cheating them out of dence in which he wrote:
the investors he was con- millions. The case was un- "F--- the feds." The judge
victed of defrauding. At related to the 2015 furor in ruled earlier that Shkreli
one point, a clerk handed which he was accused of would have to forfeit more
him a box of tissues. price-gouging, but his ar- than $7.3 million in a broker-
"I'm not the same person rest was seen as rough jus- age account and personal
I was," Shkreli said. "I know tice by the many enemies assets, including a one-
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