Second Dallas Investor Describes Martin Shkreli as Having ‘Rain Man' Personality

A Dallas investor who put $200,000 into Martin Shkreli's hedge fund said the young money manager reminded him of the autistic savant character in the movie "Rain Man."Schuyler B. Marshall, chairman of Rosewood Corp., a Dallas-based investment company established by Texas oilman H.L. Hunt, told a Brooklyn jury that he was so impressed with Shkreli he put his own retirement money into the hedge fund in 2010."I did not at the meeting conclude that Martin Shkreli was autistic, or on the autism spectrum," Marshall testified at Shkreli's fraud trial Monday. "This was a person who was intensely focused on one specific part of the market, day and night." Shkreli "knew his stuff," he added.  Continue reading...

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