Of course he’s jacking up the price.
Infamous “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli bought website urls in the names of two female journalists covering his trial, including a Post reporter, and announced Tuesday that he’s selling the domains for $12,000 – a 1000-percent markup.
“Selling http://www.emilysaul.com and http://www.megtirrell.com to raise money for my debut album: ‘God’s Gift: The Album’. I bought these domains for $12 – you can have them for $12,000. Tryna to get that Future feature doe,” Shkreli wrote in a Facebook post.
Emily Saul is a court reporter for the Post who is covering Shkreli’s Ponzi scheme trial, while Meg Tirrell covers the pharmaceutical industry for CNBC.
Records show Shkreli — best known for jacking up the price of an AIDS drug 5,000 percent when he ran Turing Pharmaceuticals — registered Saul’s domain back in February and Tirrell’s in April.
Shkreli’s Facebook post comes on the second day of his trial in a Ponzi-like securities fraud case, and follows reports from both outlets on lawyers’ struggles to find jurors who don’t already hate the 34-year-old Brooklyn native.
Some 134 prospective jurors were tossed as they variously described Shkreli as” “evil,” “the most hated man in America” and said “he looks like a d–k,” The Post reported Tuesday in its front-page story.
