Encore: There's Something About Martin | Part 1

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With a number of fraud trials in the news, we thought we’d revisit one of the cringiest fraud cases we’ve ever covered: Martin Shkreli’s. In this re-run episode from last winter, we chart his rise – and fall – from humble beginnings to finance wunderkind to one of the most hated men in America.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to scam influencers early and ad free right now.
0:04.6	Join Woundry Plus in the Woundery App or Apple Podcasts.
0:08.0	Sarah, between Sam Bankman Freed and Donald Trump, there are a lot of big fraud trials in the news right now.
0:14.2	Have you been following any of them?
0:16.2	Vaguely, they're very hard to follow.
0:18.6	There's too much happening and too much information all the time. I know.
0:23.0	Well, as you know, we cover a lot of fraud trials on this show,
0:26.0	but there's one that I still think about all the time,
0:29.0	unfortunately for my mental health.
0:31.0	It happened in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn back in 2017 and it was
0:35.4	chaotic from the moment it got started. The defendant alienated jurors, harassed journalists,
0:41.1	and made fun of the prosecutors.
0:43.2	He talked so much smack that he was actually banned from speaking outside the courthouse
0:47.8	publicly.
0:49.2	Like I said, it was chaotic.
0:51.0	Do you remember who I'm talking about? I mean, of course I do, Mr. Bys Wu-Tang album.
0:58.0	Yes, exactly. Martin Screlly. And this week, we're re rerunning our two-part series from last year,
1:04.8	all about the farmer bro everybody loves to hate.
1:07.5	We'll be back in two weeks with a fresh batch of new episodes for you,
1:10.9	including our deep dive into Congressman George Santos, highly anticipated.
1:16.0	It drops November 27th on Wundry Plus and December 4th on the public feed.
1:20.5	Stay tuned. I'm Rob Bryden and welcome to my podcast Bryden and we are now in our third series.
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