“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has been released from prison after serving a little over four years of his original seven-year sentence.
“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli Released from Prison After Serving Over 4 Years
For those who forgot about Shkreli, he was a successful hedge fund manager and founded Turing Pharmaceuticals. He is also known for purchasing Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in November 2015 for $2 million. It ended up being a decision several of the members spoke out against.
Martin Shkreli was brought up on securities fraud charges a month later. He would be found guilty on three of the eight counts and was sentenced to seven years in minimum security on March 9, 2018. The day before, $7.4 million in assets were ordered to be forfeited by the court.
Prior to his release, Shkreli was serving his sentence at FCI Allenwood Low. Now he will stay at a halfway house via the New York Residential Reentry Management Office. Once out of prison, Martin Shkreli—still in his correctional grays—was picked up by a guy named Edmund Sullivan. He would go on Facebook and post that “Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison.”
Meanwhile, Sullivan tweeted a photo of the recently released former executive with the caption “Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he’s famous.”
Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he’s famous. pic.twitter.com/7XrQaII7lq
— Edmund Sullivan (@edmundsullivan) May 18, 2022
Sullivan made sure to reply that he didn’t simply pick the convicted fraudster outside of the prison and that the tweet was for satire.
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