The Martin Shkreli trial roffles thread

the air being perfumed with chicken wings for their first kiss is such a perfect detail that i did lol

My immediate thought was, "oh, honey, he's got someone else."

My first thought was he was working on his own book/movie/concept album pitch and wanted to keep the details exclusive.

5'10" = king of the manlets

im a wee lad maybe 5’9” myself so like hey I get it but it’s just so funny how important it was for this lunatic to let the world know that her sociopath jailbird boyfriend is definitely NOT 5’7”

this was boring

Brad otm.

will never not feel good about bourgeois trash getting their comeuppance. let us have this in 2020

im a wee lad maybe 5’9” myself so like hey I get it but it’s just so funny how important it was for this lunatic to let the world know that her sociopath jailbird boyfriend is definitely NOT 5’7”

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Monday, December 21, 2020 1:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm guessing she insisted on correcting this point because it is a huge priority for him

i also don't know if it's going too far to insist you should be careful using the word "lunatic" to describe someone especially a woman

sorry to infringe on the good vibes

After that, “he kept toying with me for a while,” Smythe says. He would dangle an on-the-record interview and then grant one to one of her competitors.... Through the summer, Shkreli kept up his game of cat and mouse, offering Smythe tantalizing hints about evidence, then ghosting her for weeks over some perceived offense.

to me, this is textbook, but i forgot if it happens to a certain kind of person it's righteous class war

Let’s just say the reaction I got here for even suggesting this didn’t exactly lend itself to me deciding to spend time itt explaining it, but you’re a better person than me. As long as people can call a woman a “lunatic” (great look on a board with a dwindling population of female posters, can’t think why women feel so unwelcome) without stopping to think about it for two seconds, why ruin their fun?

She cares more about feeling like "a political wife" and holding court with a bunch of princeton econ sociopaths than the very real evil Shkreli smugly and unapologetically committed. That's the "certain kind of person" she is.

okidoke

i will say the worst way to become anti-incarceration is because you're in love with martin shkreli

now i am going to return to not thinking about these people

Good idea.

i'm guessing she insisted on correcting this point because it is a huge priority for _him_

i also don't know if it's going too far to insist you should be careful using the word "lunatic" to describe someone especially a woman

Shkreli heads (like those dumbass college kids in the story) and Trump faithful occupy a very similar territory in my head

see also online Musk stans.

Seems to me that this kind of behavior is best filed under Duly Noted and not thought about for too long. Or so I have heard.

pic.twitter.com/dyMmMFkoEL

— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) December 21, 2020

Ah, so there's a new NEW piece.

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35036400/christie-smythe-stephanie-clifford-martin-shkreli-story/

heh, maybe we’re the suckers. she’ll have a gofundme up by the end of the week

Basically this woman seems like someone I don’t want to be around but… she also hasn’t really done anything other than be a little bit of a(n arguably self-destructive) dick? I wouldn’t be surprised if she regrets this later but the only person in this scenario she’s currently hurting is herself and I kind of… don’t care?

This article was especially bizarre since it didn't mention that he's been engaged for the past year (to Maureen Lohry).

I also noticed Christie Smythe has redacted Maureen Lohry from images (e.g. Smythe's pinned tweet). It's so bizarre.

Wait what

Maureen Lohry and Shkreli dated after the arrest. They became engaged sometime after he started his sentence. Lohry has been controlling a lot of his assets (i.e. weird pharma scams), e.g. she's the current CEO of Prospero.

Trying to make Spinal Tap joke about The New New Originals.

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

Besides the fried chicken kiss.

wait if you're Albanian you get free wine?

Enver Hoxha's greatest triumph

lol

I feel like there's an episode of Jonathan Creek a bit like this

Albanian kind of strange language.

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, December 21, 2020 6:58 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

good point...

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

Is this a joke? She helped his attorney file a affidavit in Federal court that they were in a relationship and would be living with her upon his release.

an affidavit

And you were on Clubhouse last night. I’m so out of it, I don’t know what that is. What is Clubhouse?

That was wild. I didn't know what Clubhouse was; I should’ve Googled it. Apparently it's some Silicon Valley thing and it had some association with trolls, and I didn't know that offhand. Somebody invited me to go because they said they were talking about me. And I said, okay, sure. The moderator was great. She was very promoting of respect. And it actually was a very good and healthy discussion, I think.

Glad this was cleared up.

Fun fact: the worst wine I've ever had was in Albania. It tasted like brine.

seventeen glasses
brine wine

It takes a heart like Christie's these days when your man gets weak.

the story of the year makes it into the paper of record

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/media/martin-shkreli-christie-smythe.html#click=https://t.co/wJFHGIhe6T

i don't like that this is THE STORY OF THE MOMENT when we're all dying but i guess that's clickbait (tm)

the pharma bro story did not include the bit where she was like 'my man will save us from the coronavirus' pic.twitter.com/ktsq2EpOXU

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) December 21, 2020

If I understand her correctly, I believe she's asserting that he knows so much about viruses because he is, himself, a virus.

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, Martin Shkreli" - my head all day

The article also provided no evidence that Christie Smythe and Shkreli had anything other than the obvious journalist and source relationship (regardless of what Smythe thinks). This entire situation is bizarre and shady.

what? I'm a news reporter for a bloomberg rival who also regularly covers court and nothing about Smythe and Shkreli's relationship as described is normal in any sense of the word.

I know most TV and films seem to think all female journalists sleep/flirt with their sources and I'm so sorry this story seems to feed into that bs, but come the fuck on.

Ms. Smythe said she had no regrets about how she had dealt with the ethically perilous issue of covering someone she had developed feelings for. “In journalism school, they don’t really tell you what to do when this comes up,” she said. “I just tried to muddle through it and handle things as best as I could.”

This quote from her in the NYT story is also... gah. If you start developing romantic feelings for your source, you take yourself off the story or end the relationship, jfc.

United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album Forfeited by Convicted Hedge Fund Manager Martin Shkreli https://t.co/hVHDk9nH4h

— US Attorney EDNY (@EDNYnews) July 27, 2021

i bought it, selling listens for $50/listen