Latest testimony in Shkreli trial centers on a Retrophin stock deal gone sour
Fake consulting contracts for angry investors. Threatening notes to the families of ex-staffers. Boasts about big money while the bills went unpaid. All that and more has dominated the prosecution’s case against Martin Shkreli over the last few days.
Tim Pierotti took the stand as a key witness for the prosecution, telling the jury that Shkreli blessed his big play on Rick’s Cabaret, a chain of strip clubs, after he took charge of a Shkreli hedge fund, according to the report from The New York Times. But that had to be sold in 2012 after Shkreli said he needed the money. And shortly after Pierotti came to work to find people packing up the office computers.
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