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Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Prosecutors asked a federal judge in New York on Friday to force former pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli to forfeit $7.4 million in assets.
That could include $5 million in bail money, and a one-of-a-kind rap album by hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan -- titled Once Upon a Time in Shaolin -- which Shkreli bought for $2 million last year.
Prosecutors said they were also interested in Shkreli's holdings in Turing Pharmaceuticals, a Lil Wayne album The Carter V, a Picasso painting and an Enigma machine from World War II.
"We will vigorously oppose the government motion," Shkreli's lawyer Ben Brafman told CNN.
Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/12/01/Martin-Shkreli-may-have-to-forfeit-assets-including-2M-Wu-Tang-Clan-album/3281512146489/
Initech
(100,108 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Nah, on second thought, I CAN DEAL!
Thank you!!
TexasTowelie
(112,520 posts)It's a terrible time to be a Republican or an asshole (not that they are mutually exclusive).
irisblue
(33,036 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,533 posts)Yes he's a clown and obviously out there as far as being a greedy asshole, but in the end is he really any different than the repubs or their donor class puppeteers who just aren't as obvious? I say put him in ad after ad across the country and say here is your repub party example in all their unadulterated glory.