DOJ: We want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma machine, Wu-Tang album, and $7.3 million

Gradual Thursday, federal prosecutors submitted a formal look that they notion to leer civil forfeiture of many of Martin Shkreli’s property, including the uncommon Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, most attention-grabbing regarded as one of which modified into as soon as ever produced.

In a 10-web page court docket filing, prosecutors suggested the negate within the case that they are able to also try to exhaust $5 million of his money, his half of Turing Pharmaceuticals, a Lil Wayne album, a Picasso painting, and an Enigma machine.

In September 2017, Shkreli, who relishes the nickname « Pharma Bro, » modified into as soon as ordered to penal advanced after a federal negate in Brooklyn agreed with prosecutors’ assessments that his on-line antics justified his incarceration. He previously had been out on bail, watching for sentencing following his August 2017 conviction on securities fraud costs.

Shkreli, most imperfect for dramatically raising the worth of an anti-parasitic drug by bigger than 5,000 p.c, modified into as soon as arrested for security fraud and charged in December of 2015.

As Ars reported in September, Shkreli has a historical previous of harassing females on-line. Prosecutors had been in particular serious of a September Four Fb submit by which he supplied his followers a $5,000 reward for plucking a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair all the device by her most up-to-date book tour. He reportedly made a reference to the usage of the strands for genetic testing within the submit, which has since been deleted.

He’s scheduled to be sentenced on January 16, 2018.