Af­ter months of taunts and tantrums, Mar­tin Shkre­li's fraud tri­al gets un­der­way

Mar­tin Shkre­li ar­rives for the first day of ju­ry se­lec­tion in his fed­er­al se­cu­ri­ties fraud tri­al ear­li­er this morn­ing in Brook­lyn TIM­O­THY A. CLARY/AFP/Get­ty Im­ages

Mar­tin Shkre­li’s day in court has ar­rived.

His own at­tor­ney la­bels some of the no­to­ri­ous phar­ma bro’s state­ments as pre­pos­ter­ous. Banned from Twit­ter for ha­rass­ing a fe­male writer, he switched to oth­er so­cial me­dia chan­nels to talk in­vest­ment strate­gies, boast about his pur­chas­es and wealth and cas­ti­gate his crit­ics.

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