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Shkreli followed his lawyer's advice and refused to answer
all questions with exception to the question pertaining to his
name.
On the same day, Shkreli wrote a public message on Twitter
about the House committee commenting:
"Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the
people in our government”
Shkreli was dubbed ” pharma bro ” the “ Poster Boy of Greed”
helping to confirm this by his actions and conspicuous
consumption such as his $2 million purchase of the one-off
copy of a new Wu-Tang Clan album said he had not yet
decided when he would listen to it. But he is reputed to have
offered to play it for Taylor Swift - if she would give him a
**** ***.
This was reinforced in June 2016 when US district judge Kiyo
Matsumoto set the Shkreli trial for 26 June 2017. Leaving the
court Shkreli is claimed to have asked his lawyer if he could
go and play Pokémon Go.
Ben Brafman, Shkreli’s lawyer, told the judge that Shkreli
was likely to pursue a reliance of counsel defence. Brafman
had mentioned this in past hearings. This defence strategy
would essentially try to pin any wrongdoing on Greebel
(Shkreli’s lawyer at the time of the offences)
the co-defendant.
