The feds want Martin Shkreli’s one-of-a-kind Wu Tang album
In a motion filed this week, federal prosecutors asked a judge to force Martin Shkreli to hand over the one-of-kind Wu Tang album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
Shkreli, first became infamous as a pharmaceuticals CEO who massively increased the price of a life-saving medical treatment, and at times seemed to relish the role, smirking through a Congressional hearing where plead the Fifth. He earned the nickname “Pharma Bro,” and worse.
Reporters revealed in 2015 that Shkreli bought the album — sold in a handcrafted silver and nickel box — for about $2 million. Wu Tang member RZA compared the singular item to “the scepter of an Egyptian king.” Shkreli often teased that he would play tracks from…
