Well hell, they aren’t going to tell you about it!
Is this the kind of case where asset forfeiture is a possibility?
Good point.
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Not so far, because they haven’t confirmed it was bought with money from his alleged fraud. From the NYT article:
These are characters in a Charles Dickens book, aren’t they?
eta: Or Captain Planet villains.
Again, well, hell.
He’s probably burned it to CD by now. :dubious:
You think facts are going to change my opinions? I have invested the integrity of my social self in this belief, backing down now would make me look weak.
But still, is there a chance that the reason they took this issue so seriously was because they wanted an excuse to bring him down? I am comparing it to the Julian Assange issue. He leaked confidential documents, then the Swedish government tries to prosecute him for sex crimes Maybe Shkreli’s bad public image helped push his case to the forefront. Considering how many cases of fraud involved in the 2008 collapse were never investigated, I don’t know if you can say for sure that breaking the law alone will result in consequences.
In police work many cops will use any excuse to take someone they consider a threat off the streets. A lot of marijuana arrests are just cops using anything they can to take people they think are a danger to the community off the streets. Someone who isn’t seen as a danger the cops may look the other way if they see them using soft drugs in public while they will bring a gang member in for smoking marijuana. So my view is perhaps it is similar to that. Yeah he broke the law, but considering how much financial crime seems to be never prosecuted in this country why would I believe that that alone is the cause of his arrest?
…and then they box it up and hide it forever in that vast warehouse that we saw in Raider of the Lost Ark…
It might have been a joke news report. I read somewhere that after the arrest, his attorney raised his fee to $60,000 an hour.
Probably just a joke. I read somewhere today that this, or similar, is a frequent joke being kicked around on the Webz.
They have top men working on it right now.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.
Who?
*Top.
Men.*
But with Shkreli under arrest, it will make it easier for Wu-Tang and Bill Murray to repossess the album.
Although, before he was arrested, Shkreli was saying that he’s “the most successful Albanian to ever walk the face of this Earth" and that "The Albanian community is a very weird community. We’re some of the most tight-knit kind-of kill for each other, die for each other motherfuckers there are,” and basically saying that he wanted to start a fight with the Wu-Tang and how he could make them disappear. So I am almost disappointed he was arrested, because I would have liked to see how that played out.
News today: Shkreli resigns as Turing CEO after securities fraud arrest
The final paragraph of that article points out this alarming tid-bit:
I did a Google search. In a very appropriate juxtaposition, the results show the following two lines:
That is hilarious!
Yeah, on Marketplace Morning the host said wryly, “Mr Shkreli’s attorney could not be reached for comment because he was arrested at the same time.”. 