Mar­tin Shkre­li will have his day(s) in court - next June

Mar­tin Shkre­li has just un­der a year to prep for his tri­al on fed­er­al se­cu­ri­ties charges.

Judge Kiyo Mat­sumo­to set the tri­al date for June 26 next year, ac­cord­ing to wire re­ports.

Shkre­li be­came in­fa­mous last year af­ter his start­up Tur­ing grabbed an old drug called Dara­prim and im­me­di­ate­ly jacked up the price by 5,000%-plus. But while the scan­dal and re­sult­ing out­cry may have made him a tempt­ing tar­get for fed­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tors—es­pe­cial­ly as the youth­ful look­ing ex­ec took to Twit­ter to taunt and sneer at his le­gion of tor­men­tors—it has noth­ing to do with his fed­er­al case.

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