(Bloomberg) Martin Shkreli is infamous. That’s making it tough to find a jury of 12 for his criminal fraud trial in Brooklyn, where he’s even being blamed for other pharma executives’ bad behavior, such as raising the price of the life-saving EpiPen.
The first potential juror interviewed Monday, a young woman in her 30s, called Shkreli “an evil man.” Another woman said she knew he’d been labeled “the most hated man in America,” while a third woman declared, “I looked right at him and, in my head, I said ‘that’s a snake.”’ They were among at least a dozen people dismissed from jury service because of their strong opinions about Shkreli and at least three potential jurors blamed him for a spike in the price of the EpiPen.
