Martin Shkreli’s lawyer says he’s no threat to witnesses

Martin Shkreli has no plans to intimidate adversaries in his twin Brooklyn federal court cases, his lawyer wrote in a court filing Thursday.

Prosecutors said last week that potential witnesses feared the pharmaceutical executive’s wrath because he had harassed them in past disputes.

They made the claim in a push to delay an SEC case against Shkreli until his separate criminal case progresses. Starting that proceeding would unmask witnesses — and give Shkreli an opportunity to tamper with them, prosecutors said.

But his lawyer, Ben Brafman, dismissed those claims, saying Shkreli was harmless.

“There is no allegation Shkreli sought to intimidate or threaten any witnesses in this case,” he wrote.

Brafman said the feds gave two bogus examples of Shkreli’s penchant for menacing enemies.

Prosecutors said Shkreli harassed a former staffer over a financial dispute and even contacted the man’s family to drive home his displeasure.

But Brafman said the man had actually stolen money from Shkreli’s former pharmaceutical firm, Retrophin, and that the matter was settled in court — not on the street.

Brafman noted that the second person Shkreli supposedly harassed was not named in court papers and that “a meaningful defense of such an insinuation is all but impossible.”

“In any event, Shkreli denies that he ever suggested to someone that he or she change a version of events or provide false information,” Brafman said.

Shkreli was an obscure pharmaceutical entrepreneur before rocketing to infamy by hiking the price of an HIV drug 5,000 percent.

His critics grew louder after he boastfully purchased the lone copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album for $2 million and then didn’t bother to give it a listen.

Shkreli’s detractors rejoiced after his fraud case for allegedly lying about the financial health of a pair of hedge funds and illegally commingling money.

But rather than muzzle him, the arrest only increased Shkreli’s torrent of social media activity. He broadcasts whole chunks of his day on an increasingly popular YouTube livestream and gleefully skewers critics on Twitter.

Shkreli’s rhetoric reached its zenith when he referred to veteran congressional leaders as “imbeciles.”

He has also given a series of carefully curated interviews with some unlikely outlets, including a showdown with radio interrogator Charlamagne Tha God on hip-hop station 97.1.

The Sheepshead Bay-born businessman insisted that a good portion of his online antics are theatrics that are taken too seriously.

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