Shkreli Meets Potential Juror for Trial Who Sees ‘A Snake’

By Patricia Hurtado and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Bloomberg News

Martin Shkreli is infamous. That’s making it tough to find a jury of 12 for his criminal fraud trial -- even in Brooklyn.

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. ...