Martin Shkreli’s big mouth landed him in jail even before his fraud conviction did. 
 
 A U.S. judge revoked the former pharmaceutical executive’s bail Wednesday, ordering him jailed immediately, over a bounty Shkreli issued in a Facebook post for a strand of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hair. 
 
 “The fact that he continues to remain unaware of the inappropriateness of his actions or words demonstrates that he may well be an ongoing danger or risk to the community," U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said. 
 
 Shkreli, wearing a lavender button-down shirt and Dockers, was stone-faced as the judge handed down her decision. He was immediately taken into custody and led away from the courtroom by two deputy U.S. Marshals and into a prisoner holding cell adjacent to the sixth-floor courtroom. 
 
 He will be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, according to his lawyer Benjamin Brafman. It’s a federal jail in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn which has housed terrorists and mobsters. 
 
 "We are obviously disappointed,” Brafman said after the hearing. “We believe the court arrived at the wrong decision, but she’s the judge and right now we will have to live with this decision.” 
 
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 Shkreli, 34, was convicted last month of three of eight charges, including two counts of securities fraud. He was acquitted of fraud charges related to the alleged looting of the drug company he founded, Retrophin Inc. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on each of the securities fraud charges, though he’s likely to get a lesser term. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 16. 
 
 The conviction and pending sentencing didn’t tame the brash executive known as Pharma Bro. In a now-deleted Facebook posting, in which he offered his followers $5,000 for a strand of Clinton’s hair during her book tour, he caught the attention of prosecutors. They asked Matsumoto to revoke Shkreli’s bail and throw him in jail because he’s not only a convicted felon but his threats pose a danger to the community. 
 
 "He’s reckless,” prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis told the judge. “He doesn’t get it. He doesn’t respect the rule of law." 
 
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 Shkreli appears to have violated state and federal laws prohibiting threats against the immediate family members of former presidents, the prosecutors argued. The comments prompted the U.S. Secret Service to start an investigation and boost security for Clinton, they said. 
 
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 Shkreli has a history of making provocative comments against specific women, the prosecutors said. 
 
 He was banned from Twitter in January for harassing a Teen Vogue writer and persisted in verbally badgering women online. 
 
 Shkreli responded to the government’s request with a profanity in a Facebook post, adding “I will never kiss their ring or snitch. Come at me with your hardest because I haven’t seen anything impressive yet." 
 
 He quickly backed off, writing an apologetic letter to the judge in a request to remain out on bail. 
 
 "Some may have read my comments about Mrs. Clinton as threatening, which was never my intention," Shkreli wrote. "I used poor judgment but never intended to cause alarm or promote any act of violence whatsoever." 
 
 Brafman vowed Shkreli would behave if the judge let him remain free until sentencing. 
 
 "Stupid doesn’t make you violent," Brafman said. "Sometimes stupid makes you stupid." 
 
 Shkreli was just engaging in political satire in his comments about Clinton, Brafman said. 
 
 The judge wasn’t buying it. 
 
 "What is so funny about this?” a visibly angry Matsumoto demanded. “He’s soliciting an assault on another person in exchange for $5,000. Under the facts and circumstances, I’m going to respectfully deny your request to change my mind. I can’t say with any certainty that the threats have not been taken seriously by anybody.” 
 
 The case is U.S. v. Shkreli, 15-cr-637, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn). ||||| "He is soliciting an assault on another person for $5,000," Matsumoto said. The judge noted that no one knew whether any of Shkreli's followers would take him up on that bizarre offer, either in a legitimate desire for the cash or in a bid to gain Shkreli's approval. 
 
 She noted that even when Shkreli tried to portray the offer as satire in a subsequent Facebook post, he wrote that he would pay the bounty only if the hair included a follicle. 
 
 "The fact that he continues to remain unaware ... of the inappropriateness of his actions or words demonstrates to me he may be an ongoing danger or risk to the community," Matsumoto said. 
 
 The judge also noted that once defendants are convicted in federal court, as Shkreli was in August, there is a legal presumption that their bail will be revoked. 
 
 "I''m going to remand Mr. Shkreli," Mastumoto said. 
 
 A somber-looking Shkreli, wearing a purple dress shirt and a shaggy mop of hair, was taken into custody by two deputy U.S. Marshals just after 6 p.m. ET as his grim-faced legal team stood by. 
 
 "We are obviously disappointed," Brafman said outside the court to reporters. "We believe the court arrived at the wrong decision but she's the judge and right now we will have to live with this decision." 
 
 "It's unfortunate. It was unfortunately avoidable, but the judge has ruled and she's the judge," the lawyer said. 
 
 Shkreli will be held in a federal jail, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, until his sentencing on securities fraud charges on January 16, which Matsumoto scheduled Wednesday. 
 
 Shkreli's Facebook post last week about Clinton sparked an inquiry from the U.S. Secret Service, who also in response beefed up their protective measures for the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee amid her ongoing book tour. 
 
 Prosecutors then asked Matsumoto to jail Shkreli, saying in a court filing that "his recent public conduct demonstrates that he cannot meet his post-trial burden to show, by clear and convincing evidence, that he does not pose a danger to the community." 
 
 Prosecutors pointed out that Shkreli's latest stunt came just weeks after being convicted of three securities fraud-related counts in Brooklyn federal court. 
 
 Brafman, at Wednesday's hearing, used a slew of arguments to dissuade Matsumoto from revoking Shkreli's bond, as she appeared inclined to do almost from the moment that she took the bench. 
 
 "I'm not making excuses for Mr. Shkreli," Brafman said. "We had a long, painful discussion about this episode." 
 
 "I'm angry at him too," the lawyer said. 
 
 Brafman said Shkreli never intended for his post to be taken seriously, noting that Shkreli had also written about using the hair to "clone" Clinton, and that he was dismayed to find out that people might believe otherwise. 
 
 "Stupid doesn't make you violent," Brafman said. 
 
 Brafman suggested however that Shkreli — a purported supporter of President Donald Trump with a long-standing animus to Clinton — was merely engaging in the sort of scathing political hyperbole that has become increasingly common in America. Brafman said that kind of speech, no matter how offensive, is constitutionally protected. 
 
 The lawyer also argued that Shkreli had been lashing out on social media in response to being demonized by the public in the past two years after raising the price of an anti-parasite drug by 5,000 percent in 2015. 
 
 Brafman offered to have Shkreli make a full-throated disavowal of this Clinton bounty online on Wednesday, to be willingly banned from all social media by the judge, and to generally behave appropriately from now on until he is sentenced. 
 
 He kept arguing his points for nearly 20 minutes after Matsumoto first said she would revoke Shkreli's bond, in an increasingly desperate effort to get the judge to change her mind. 
 
 In a letter to Matsumoto on Tuesday, Shkreli had written, "I wanted to personally apologize to this Court and my lawyers for the aggravation that my recent postings have caused." 
 
 "I understand now that some may have read my comments about Mrs. Clinton as threatening, when that was never my intention when making those comments," Shkreli wrote. 
 
 "I used poor judgment but never intended to cause alarm or promote any act of violence whatsoever," he wrote, adding that he had quickly amended his post to make clear he had just been joking. 
 
 Shkreli's lawyer Brafman, in his own letter to Matsumoto on Tuesday, had written, "While we do not condone Mr. Shkreli's comment, his constitutionally protected political hyperbole does not rise to the level of making a 'danger to the community' when he is not and has never been considered to be a danger." 
 
 Brafman said that Shkreli should not be jailed because he "never intended any harm or violence." 
 
 The lawyer disputed prosecutors' contention that comments Shkreli made online about Clinton and a journalist, Lauren Duca, constituted an escalating pattern of threats. 
 
 Brafman suggested that Shkreli was engaging in "political hyperbole" or "satire" in his comments about both women. 
 
 Brafman cited the fact that comedian Kathy Griffin was not prosecuted after she posted online a photograph of herself holding what appeared to be the bloody, severed head of Trump. 
 
 "Another example of political hyperbole is when President Donald Trump, as a candidate, caused a controversy last year by implying that 'Second Amendment people' could prevent former Secretary Clinton from abolishing their right to bear arms." 
 
 Michael Bachner, a leading New York criminal defense lawyer, earlier Wednesday told CNBC he did not believe Shkreli should have his bail revoked. 
 
 "If he had made the comments about another author who wasn't Clinton, I don't think there would be a bail revocation hearing going on here," said Bachner. 
 
 Another top New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, earlier said that while Shkreli probably should be allowed to remain free on bail, "I think the judge is probably at wit's end with respect to... his conduct." 
 
 Matsumoto, during Shkreli's trial this summer, imposed a virtual gag order on him that barred him from talking about the case in public around the courthouse after he gave an impromptu press conference to reporters and called prosecutors in the case the "junior varsity." 
 
 Asked if he had ever seen a defendant in a criminal case who had been convicted make such a public spectacle of himself as Shkreli has done since early August, Lefcourt said, "No." 
 
 "He is just incapable of controlling himself," Lefcourt said. 
 
 CORRECTION: This story was updated to reflect the correct spelling of Martin Shkreli's name. ||||| FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli speaks during an interview by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli speaks during an interview by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network,... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli (all times local): 
 
 6:30 p.m. 
 
 A judge who revoked the bail of former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli (SHKREL'-ee) and had him taken to jail says his offer to pay a $5,000 bounty for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle was "solicitation of an assault." 
 
 The judge said Wednesday that's not protected by the First Amendment and there's "a risk someone may take" Shkreli up on his offer. 
 
 Shkreli is awaiting sentencing for a securities fraud conviction. His defense argued in court papers his recent offer to pay the $5,000 bounty for Clinton's hair was "political satire or strained humor." The government calls the comments threats worthy of revoking the bail of the so-called Pharma Bro. 
 
 Shkreli is best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and for trolling his critics online. He has said he feels "exonerated" despite his conviction. 
 
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 6:05 p.m. 
 
 Former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli (SHKREL'-ee) has had his bail revoked and is going to jail in New York while he awaits sentencing for a securities fraud conviction. 
 
 A judge at a Wednesday hearing sided with a government demand to jail Shkreli following his provocative online antics. 
 
 Shkreli's defense argued in court papers filed Tuesday his recent offer to pay a $5,000 bounty for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle falls under the category of "political satire or strained humor." The government calls the comments threats worthy of revoking the bail of the so-called Pharma Bro. 
 
 Shkreli is best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and for trolling his critics online. He has said he feels "exonerated" despite his conviction. 
 
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 12:20 a.m. 
 
 A federal judge in New York is considering whether the provocative online antics of former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli (SHKREL'-ee) are bad enough to put him behind bars. 
 
 The judge has scheduled a Wednesday hearing to consider a government demand to jail Shkreli while he awaits sentencing for a securities fraud conviction. 
 
 Shkreli's defense argued in court papers filed Tuesday his recent offer to pay a $5,000 bounty for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle falls under the category of "political satire or strained humor." The government calls the comments threats that should be grounds for revoking the bail of the so-called Pharma Bro. 
 
 Shkreli is best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and for trolling his critics online. He has said he feels "exonerated" despite his conviction.
– Martin Shkreli jacked up the price of a life-saving drug, bought the only copy of a new Wu-Tang Clan album, and committed securities fraud. But it was offering $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair that finally proved a bridge too far. Bloomberg reports a judge revoked the former pharmaceutical CEO's bail and ordered him immediately to jail Wednesday. Judge Kiyo Matsumoto ruled the 34-year-old Shkreli "may be an ongoing danger or risk to the community," according to CNBC. Shkreli had been out on $5 million bond following his conviction on securities fraud charges last month for which he faces up to 20 years in prison. He will now remain in jail until his scheduled sentencing on those charges in January. Shkreli offered $5,000 for a strand of Clinton's hair on Facebook following his conviction. In response, the Secret Service opened an investigation and prosecutors asked the judge to revoke his bail. Shkreli struck a defiant pose online, posting on Facebook: "Come at me with your hardest because I haven’t seen anything impressive yet." But in a letter to the judge asking to be allowed to remain out of jail, Shkreli was apologetic, writing: "I used poor judgment but never intended to cause alarm or promote any act of violence whatsoever." While Shkreli's lawyers said the post was "political satire or strained humor," Matsumoto ruled it was basically a "solicitation of an assault" and not protected by the First Amendment, the AP reports.