On the first day of his trial, alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was joined by convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli, who took notes on the proceedings using the newly released Elon Musk biography as a hard surface. Shkreli watched the proceedings from the overflow room alongside Tiffany Fong, the crypto influencer who conducted some of the first interviews with Bankman-Fried following the FTX collapse. (Fong tweeted a tongue-in-cheek photo with Shkreli from outside the courthouse captioned, “new boyfriend!”) Asked why he was in attendance, Shkreli replied: “I don’t talk to reporters.” Shkreli’s appearance followed a bizarre 21-minute livestream of his walk to the courthouse. After getting lost he eventually reached the courthouse, of which he said “it’s not my favorite place” and that “the vibes are off.” Near the end of his journey, Shkreli approached an entrance marked “attorney, messengers and law enforcement only,” read the rule out loud, said “I think this is the wrong entrance,” entered anyway, and was promptly turned away by security.
