Martin Shkreli Secures Bail With $45 Million E*Trade Account, Demands Respect From Wu-Tang Clan
“I bought the most expensive album in the history of mankind and fucking RZA is talking shit behind my back and online in plain sight. If I hand you $2 million, fucking show me some respect.”
That’s a quote from the incomparable Martin Shkreli who is upset with the Wu-Tang Clan from whom he purchased a one-of-a-kind double disc for $2 million last year.

RZA, the group’s frontman if not its most famous member, found himself in a bit of an awkward scenario when news of the sale hit the wires.
When the deal was done, Shkreli had not yet become a household name. In other words, it wasn’t apparent to RZA that the soon-to-be proud owner of the one and only copy of “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin” would soon become public enemy number one in America on the way to being arrested for fraud.
"I met him, we had a brief lunch, and he did mention his love of hip-hop,” RZA said in the interview with Bloomberg. “I didn’t get a chance to read him."
In the wake of the Daraprim fiasco which saw Shkreli raise the price of a drug he acquired from $13.50 to $750 a pill, Wu-Tang decided to donate "a significant portion" of the proceeds to charity.
Even as RZA isn't particularly enamored with Shkreli's drug pricing practices, the producer says he doesn't regret doing the deal. "He bought it, he can do what he wants," RZA told Bloomberg TV’s John Heilemann."The beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. What we’ve done is historical, and you can’t remove that.”
No, you can't, and neither can you "remove" the bad taste Shkreli's Daraprim price hike left in America's mouth which is why when it came time to set bail, no one was in a forgiving mood. The price of (temporary) freedom for America's "most hated man": $5 million.
Unfortunately, the bail bondsman didn't accept Wu-Tang albums as collateral and so, Shkreli put up his E*Trade account instead. The account's value is said to be $45 million.
"Martin Shkreli put up his $45 million E*Trade account to secure $5 million bail after federal authorities arrested him on fraud charges last month," Bloomberg reports. "Shkreli was ordered to disclose how that bond is secured and prosecutors filed papers Thursday stating Shkreli has a brokerage account worth eight figures," NY Daily News adds. "E*Trade has been ordered to notify prosecutors if the balance of the brokerage account dips below $5 million — which would jeopardize the bail bond and Shkreli’s freedom."
We wonder if Martin, like the E*Trade-ing Joe Campbell whose short position in KBIO blew up when Shkreli acquired more than half of the float back in November, will start a GoFundMe page in the event his collapsing holdings leave him a few million short on the bail bond.
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RZA talks Shkreli and Trump with Bloomberg Business
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Vermin.
LMAO
Upon second thought, referring to Shrkeli as "vermin" is an insult to rats and lice.
Who can respect a piece of shit?
"Martin" needs to sacrifice some more goy blood to his evil God. He is losing influence, as are all of his peers.
The internet is a powerful thing. It allows even us plebeians to find facts that they want hidden more than anything. The Streisand Effect now extends from idiots celebrities to international conspiracies that have existed for millennia. Anyone can learn about what they have done. No-other peoples have been kicked out of so many countries.
This entire story defines 2016 America.
E*Trade ya say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjsQ-O8l2Go
"Vermin"
Yes, please do hate those you are told to hate. Good boy. Hillary is proud of you.
Martin being the son of immigrants is clearly wanting respect which hopefully by now he realizes you just can't buy.
Martin single-handedly destroyed a company's lucrative monopoly on a life-saving drug and lowered its cost by a factor of 13... RESPECT!
He handed $45M to ETrade? Evidence of pure douchery.....
This is so much fun watching this guy go down. The best part is he has NO IDEA he's going down. In his twisted mind this is all more of the same- temporary setback that he'll quickly overcome like he always had in the past.
Agreed. Schadenfreude can actually be fun with the right target in your visor. The guy doesn't even realise how twisted he sounds. "2 million dollars equals some fucking respect, bro!"
Well, not in my book, pal.
Did I just do that right with the slang? Difficult language, American.
Respect can only ever be earned, never bought.
That's why it has value.
"The guy doesn't even realise how twisted he sounds."
If its due to youth, in a few years reading it all back, he'll blush.
But he isn't that young, nor should he be so dumb.
So its not because he is young. Its because he is a sociopath.
And all sociopaths twist everything to benifit themselves.
Then again maybe he IS that dumb.
He has got a platform to speak about what is truly wrong in the country with pharma.
He should defend his price hike, claiming its legal, which it is, and then tear apart congress for allowing an act illegal in any other industry, to be allowed in pharma.
He could easily explain that the reason he was able to hike, is not bc it isnt produced anywhere else, but bc if it were produced in another country, even though it cost 1/100th of the price here, you can't import it thanks to CONgress.
He could easily explain that he is making a buck the legal way (just dont look behind the curtain) and all he took was an oppurtunity, an opportunity that should never have existed.
This would be my 101 damage control.
Then again maybe he IS that dumb.
Now THAT was a good comment.
The whole "all sociopaths x, y, and z" thing is complete horseshit.
Anyone that's studied a modicum of psychology knows that a "sociopath" is not an actual thing, much less a super exact set of behaviors that match every "sociopath" down to a T. Substitute "sociopath" for "misanthropist" and you'll see what I mean.Mi
ght as well say "all psychopaths play with dolls as children" because that's just as fuckin retarded.
"This entire story defines 2016 America."
This is a story?
This is America?
The net does allow we 'little people' access to information that would be more difficult to access, otherwise. Getting the 'general public' to accept the hidden truths of history is another thing. Learning these truths, unfortunately, is limited to the people who have a genuine interest in...learning. Knowledge, in the hands of those who wish to utilize it properly, is an awesome thing. Unfortunately, most have no interest in 'truth'.
"The truth is like poetry. And almost everyone fucking hates poetry."
Behind every dindu "musician" theres a handrubbing merchant.
Jealous much?
Break times over. Goggles back on. Gloves, boots... OK hit it.
See ya back here at noon tomorrow.
Well, Hill seems to respect Bill and vice versa.
Shit is useful, tomatoes can grow from it. Martin Shkreli could be rendered down to biofuel, then he would be useful too.
no amount of his money is worthy of respect. Respect comes in the manner in which you earn it.
"Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthing ta fuck wit."
C.R.E.A.M.
My entire high school career revolved around the Wu...Awesome music. Hell, GZA is giving speeches at Harvard these days...lol.
RIP ODB
It's Wu-Tang nigga, ain't nothin' changed nigga! Still shame on a nigga who try to run game.
word.
i personally don't care for them other then that they like old style kung fu
not into their music
Shrkeli- little wimpy piss ass fucken white jackass that thinks, or REALLY WISHES, he is/was black...
Let's test the theory that guns kill people; give Shrkeli one and put him in solitary for a month.
This guy is like the gift that keeps on giving.
@ Delphi_Addiction:
"the gift that keeps on giving"....can also be used to describe a really bad case of diarrhea.
LOL !
When does a Pimp give respect to a Ho ?
Reminds me of the scene in the third Batman when John Daggett, before he is killed by Bane says....."I paid you a lot of money !" And Bane says. "And this gives you power over me?"
I haven't seen the movie yet! Way to spoil it.
Well....while I'm at it......
Batman retires after saving Gotham.
The Wizard of Oz is NOT a wizard, but an old man behind a curtain pulling levers on a machine that projects his image. And Dorothy hallucinated her whole trip to Oz after being hit in the head by debris in a tornado.
Astronaut Bowman becomes the Star Child at the end of "2001: A Space Odessey"
Kevin Spacey WAS the bad guy at the end of "The Usual Suspects"
Bruce Willis was actually a ghost in "The Sixth Sense"
And.....it doesn't matter who you vote for......since both political parties are owned by The Banksters.
Oh yeah....almost forgot. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.
This is, afterall, fightclub.
Well done.
Respect is earned not bought......
Mind boggled that a person who managed to acquire that much money, has a fucking E*trade account.
I guess if you get paid enough it's easy to ignore that it's stolen blood money.
How about this - Fuck the Wu-Tag and this guy. Boom. I just said it, now give me some respect.
Wu-Tang should get on the ball. Offer to buy it back for $2M, then re-sell it for $4M.
We don't understand a word of this and demand you play something from that delightful Billy Chrystal.
"this video is private"
You can't even make shit that's this weird up.
Respect is not PURCHASED, Asshole, it is EARNED!
Money buys respect.
From tipping to bribery: money gets shit done the way money sez it is gonna get done.
Everybody has their price.
Wu Tang sold because they respected the money.