Martin Shkreli has been jailed following a peculiar Facebook post:
Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive who is awaiting sentencing for a fraud conviction, was sent to jail on Wednesday after a federal judge revoked his bail because he had offered $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair.
Mr. Shkreli, who was free on $5 million bail while he awaited sentencing, had made two Facebook posts offering cash to anyone who could "grab a hair" from Mrs. Clinton during her book tour.
At the hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto said that Mr. Shkreli's post could be perceived as a true threat. "That is a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the First Amendment," she said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @09:22PM
This is definitely assault no matter what he intends to do with the hair.
Garbage is what it would be if lifted off some random chair. Garbage is tend to be ruled as free game in pretty much most of the court cases out there. To make it 'assault' is a stretch. You know it. You want to blow it out of preportion for what it really is. Creepy? Oh hell yeah. Assault? I think you would have to turn the law into a pretzel to pull that off.