Martin Shkreli ordered to give up $7.4 million, including his one-of-a-kind Wu Tang Clan album

[Purplecat]

The latest chapter in this saga just reminds me that this theory from 2015 is still plausible:

How did Reuters get that shot of Martin Shkreli's perp-walk?

My new theory is that this is all a publicity stunt by the Wu Tang Clan. RZA invents a persona called “Martin Shkreli” (which, let me remind you, is an anagram of “Hail, Mr Stinker”) and sets him up as the head of a pharmaceutical company. The Wu-Tang Clan buys the exclusive rights to sell a drug whose patent expired in 1953, then has him generate controversy by hiking the price. Gigantic success – Shkreli becomes the most hated man on the Internet almost overnight. To ensure he doesn’t fade ou…