Shkreli Ordered to Stop Talking About Trial Around Courthouse

By Patricia Hurtado and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Bloomberg News

Martin Shkreli’s impromptu trial discussions with reporters at the Brooklyn federal courthouse are over as the judge overseeing the case ordered the former pharmaceutical executive to stop talking about it in and around the building.

But he can go on discussing it on the internet.

Shkreli, on trial for securities fraud, spent about five minutes on June 30 in a courtroom set up for an overflow crowd, including reporters. He criticized prosecutors and the media while denying he defrauded the first witness in the case. The government argued a gag order was ...