Article 5MNKD ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s $2m Wu-Tang Clan album sold by US government

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s $2m Wu-Tang Clan album sold by US government

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The album, purchased by Shkreli for $2m, was bought for an undisclosed sum

An unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album that Pharma Bro" entrepreneur Martin Shkreli forfeited after his securities fraud conviction was sold Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, though prosecutors say it was enough to fully satisfy the rest of what he owed on a $7.4m forfeiture order he faced after his 2018 sentencing.

The entrepreneur once boasted that he paid $2m in 2015 at auction for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the 31-track double album the Wu-Tang Clan spent six years creating.

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