Martin Shkreli Jailed For Offering Bounty on Hillary Clinton's Hair

Martin Shkreli, the notorious pharmaceutical executive-turned-convicted felon and full-time troll, returned to the headlines, and to his own surprise, jail, yesterday after a judge revoked his bail because he literally put a bounty on the head of Hillary Clinton.

To split hairs, Shkreli posted a bounty on Clinton’s hair. In the original Facebook shitpost that surfaced last week and has been since removed, Shkreli wrote:

"The Clinton Foundation is willing to KILL to protect its secrets. So on HRC’s book tour, try to grab a hair from her. I must confirm the sequences I have. Will pay $5,000 per hair obtained from Hillary Clinton. Payment after the sequence matches. Good luck, patrollers.”

Upon facing yet another storm of backlash, Shkreli quickly backtracked and claim it was an awkward attempt at humor, but the prosecutors and the judge presiding over his securities fraud trial somehow didn’t see the humor in encouraging assault on the former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate. Prosecutors noted that “Shkreli has engaged in an escalating pattern of threats and harassment,” and demanded his bail be revoked. The judge agreed.

“That is a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the First Amendment,” said Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto in her decision to lock him up in jail.

Following his formal conviction on securities fraud charges in December last year, Shkreli was promptly released on bail and has been on a spree of bizarre rants and antics on the social media for months. At one point, he even boasted that he wouldn't mind spending a few months at the "Club Fed" to hone his tennis and video game skills. But after yesterday's court order, Shkreli will now spend the rest of the year as an inmate at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, a maximum-security facility far away from his home in Manhattan, until the day of his sentencing in January 2018.

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