{"id":70872,"date":"2019-09-09T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70872"},"modified":"2019-09-11T01:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:31:35","slug":"even-behind-bars-martin-shkreli-is-still-filing-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2019\/even-behind-bars-martin-shkreli-is-still-filing-lawsuits.html","title":{"rendered":"Even Behind Bars, Martin Shkreli Is Still Filing Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Convicted \u201cPharma Bro\u201d Martin Shkreli is in prison serving a seven-year sentence, but that hasn\u2019t tamed his appetite for using the courts to battle former colleagues and clients. On Friday, he claimed a former investor in his Elea Capital hedge fund forced him to sign a $250,000 promissory note that is now unenforceable. Shkreli alleges Lee Yaffe, a former business associate who became a prosecution witness, directed his father to start a wrongful legal action that has since resulted in a $420,000 judgment, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-06\/imprisoned-shkreli-sues-ex-investor-for-fraud-tied-to-his-fund\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Convicted \u201cPharma Bro\u201d Martin Shkreli is in prison serving a seven-year sentence, but that hasn\u2019t tamed his appetite for using the courts to battle former colleagues and clients. On Friday, he claimed a former investor in his Elea Capital [&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-70872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70872","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=70872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70873,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70872\/revisions\/70873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}