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Martin Shkreli, Now In Jail, May Have To Forfeit That Wu-Tang Album After All

A judge has ruled that the former pharmaceutical chief known as "Pharma Bro" owes the government $7.36 million for his fraud. And if he can't pay it back, he'll have to give up the ultra-rare album.
Martin Shkreli, seen after he was found guilty of securities fraud in New York City last year.

Martin Shkreli, you may remember, owns a Wu-Tang Clan album.

It is a very, very expensive double album, literally one of a kind: a single copy sold at auction for $2 million ... to the former pharmaceutical for raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 percent. Shkreli, the man known by some of his less-sympathetic observers as "Pharma Bro," ended up getting and for offering $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair.

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