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Martin Shkreli Tells Judge He Had Legal Right to Copy & Retain One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album


Wu-Tang Clan's "Shaolin" album private copies were legally allowed, says Martin Shkreli, who is firing back in a lawsuit over the one-of-a-kind album.

Convicted pharma executive Martin Shkreli is firing back in a lawsuit over Wu-Tang Cla n’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, arguing he had a legal right to retain copies of the one-of-a-kind album even after he handed it over to federal prosecutors. PleasrDAO sued Shkreli last month over the potential leak of the album, accusing him of violating both their purchase agreement and the federal forfeiture order. After Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud in 2017, he forfeited the album to federal prosecutors to help pay his multi-million dollar restitution sentence.

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