Ex-Bloomberg Reporter Christie Smythe Who Covered Martin Shkreli Reveals Relationship With Him December 21, 2020 Auto Bot Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Retrophin Inc, Shkreli, Martin (1983- ) 0 Christie Smythe helped break the story of Mr. Shkreli’s arrest in 2015. Then she “started to fall for him,” she said, and quit her job at Bloomberg News.