Dbag Shkreli gets court date delayed after firing lawyers
Martin Shkreli won’t appear in court today after all.
After a last-minute plea by his now former legal team, Shkreli will get a two-week delay of his January 20 court hearing while he finds new counsel.
Shkreli, reviled former-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was charged last month with running a Ponzi-like scheme and defrauding two hedge funds he previously managed and one of the pharmaceutical companies he founded, Retrophin. He has pled not guilty and was released on $5 million bail he posted with a $45-million-dollar E-trade account.
In a letter dated Monday, his now former legal team from the law firm Arnold & Porter asked Brooklyn federal court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto to postpone a hearing in the case that was scheduled for Wednesday. “Mr. Shkreli has indicated that he wishes to replace our firm as counsel and is in the process of retaining new counsel,” lawyers from the firm wrote in a court document filed Monday. “We respectfully request a two-week continuance of the scheduled conference so that Mr. Shkreli can finalize his engagement of new counsel and we can properly transition the matter to the new attorneys.”
The request was granted late Tuesday and the hearing was rescheduled for 10 am on February 3, 2016.
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