{"id":58699,"date":"2017-06-27T07:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58699"},"modified":"2017-06-27T07:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:53:57","slug":"shkrelis-jury-pool-calls-him-an-evil-man-and-a-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/shkrelis-jury-pool-calls-him-an-evil-man-and-a-snake.html","title":{"rendered":"Shkreli&#8217;s Jury Pool Calls Him \u2018an Evil Man\u2019 and \u2018a Snake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Martin Shkreli is infamous. That\u2019s making it tough to find a jury of 12 for his criminal fraud trial in Brooklyn, where he\u2019s even being blamed for other pharma executives\u2019 bad behavior, such as raising the price of the life-saving EpiPen.<\/p>\n<p>The first potential juror interviewed Monday, a young woman in her 30s, called Shkreli \u201can evil man.\u201d Another woman said she knew he\u2019d been labeled \u201cthe most hated man in America,\u201d while a third woman declared, \u201cI looked right at him and, in my head, I said \u2018that\u2019s a snake.\u201d\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-26\/shkreli-meets-potential-juror-for-trial-who-sees-a-snake\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Martin Shkreli is infamous. That\u2019s making it tough to find a jury of 12 for his criminal fraud trial in Brooklyn, where he\u2019s even being blamed for other pharma executives\u2019 bad behavior, such as raising the price of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58700,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699\/revisions\/58700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}