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Karma is a b…ch when every one hates Martin Shkreli

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"separator" style&equals;"clear&colon; both&semi; text-align&colon; center&semi;">&NewLine;<h3><b> <&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;808080&semi;"><i>couldn&&num;8217&semi;t have happened to a nicer guy <&sol;i><i>&&num;8230&semi; he he he <&sol;i><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<i><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;808080&semi;">Ironically&comma; patent rights was at the center of the Daraprim monopoly<&sol;span>&period;<&sol;i><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;030000&semi;"><strong>Pharma bro &&num;8230&semi;When all your chickens start heading home to roost  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;030000&semi;"><strong>Martin Shkreli faces a new lawsuit claiming that his &dollar;2 million Wu-Tang Clan album contains illustrations ripped off from New York artist&comma; Jason Koza&comma; who now wants the former drug executive to pay for them<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;030000&semi;"><strong>&&num;8216&semi; Shkreli isn&&num;8217&semi;t going to listen to album&comma; but bought to &&num;8216&semi;keep it from the people&&num;8217&semi; &comma; and that is just piling on<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-290558" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Martin-Shekreli-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Martin Shekreli 5" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"264" &sol;>Smirking Martin Shkreli&comma; aka Pharma bro&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; CEO of  Turing Pharmaceuticals&comma;  remember him&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He is now facing a  copyright suit involving one-off Wu-Tang Album he bought for &dollar;2m just to &&num;8216&semi;keep from the people&&num;8217&semi;  he faces lawsuit claiming that his &dollar;2 million Wu-Tang Clan album has artwork ripped off from NYC artist&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Last Thursday&comma; Shkreli invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on drug pricing&comma; and later tweeted that lawmakers in Congress were imbeciles&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also faces separate federal securities fraud charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><b><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-290563" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;new-Wu-Tang-Clan-album-22Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Shaolin&period;22-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"new Wu-Tang Clan album&comma; Once Upon a Time in Shaolin&period;" width&equals;"658" height&equals;"369" &sol;>The Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album&comma; which is the sole copy of that Shkreli bought for &dollar;2 million <&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Shkreli achieved notoriety when his company&comma; Turing Pharmaceuticals&comma; bought the drug  &&num;8216&semi;Daraprim&comma; which is used to treat toxoplasmosis&comma; a disease that can be fatal to H&period;I&period;V&period; patients&period; After buying the drug&comma; Turing raised its price from less than twenty dollars per tablet to seven hundred and fifty dollars&period; This was too high&comma; in the judgment of many people who knew the industry&comma; and many more who did not&period; Experts called the increase &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unjustifiable&comma;” while those discussing the situation online used less measured language&period; Shkreli at first said he would lower the price&comma; which scarcely mollified his critics&period; &lpar;One headline&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Martin Shkreli Lowers Drug Price&comma; Is Still an Asshole&period;”&rpar; Then he said he wouldn’t&comma; which increased the outrage—people were calling him &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pharma bro&comma;” the personification of a medical industry gone bad&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A New York artist wants Shkreli to pay up for the &dollar;2 million Wu-Tang Clan album that contains his ripped off illustrations&period;  Jason Koza&comma; said he never allowed his fan art to be used in packaging for the group&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8216&semi;Once Upon a Time in Shaolin&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-290564" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;WuDisciples-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"WuDisciples 1" width&equals;"660" height&equals;"657" &sol;><b>Koza said he thought his nine works would appear only on the website WuDisciples&period;blogspot&period;com and that he never granted a license for his works to be copied or displayed anywhere else <&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Koza&comma; 34&comma; filed a complaint on Tuesday that said he never allowed his fan art depicting Wu-Tang members to be used in packaging for the hip-hop group&&num;8217&semi;s album&comma; Once Upon a Time in Shaolin&comma; the sole copy of which Shkreli bought&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Koza&comma; said he never allowed his fan art to be used in packaging for the group&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8216&semi;Once Upon a Time in Shaolin&&num;8217&semi; &period; Koza also blames Wu-Tang leader Robert &&num;8216&semi;RZA&&num;8217&semi; Diggs for including the art in the album&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former drug executive&comma; Shkreli has bragged that he had no plans to listen to the album&comma; but bought it to &&num;8216&semi;keep it from the people&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Koza said Cilvaringz has acknowledged the infringement&comma; asking in a Jan&period; 31 email &&num;8216&semi;if you want to skype discussing the use of your drawings&period; Thanks bro&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-290559" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;Wu-tang-Clan-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Wu-tang Clan 1&period;png" width&equals;"684" height&equals;"410" &sol;><b>The Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip-hop group from New York City&comma; originally composed of East Coast rappers RZA&comma; GZA&comma; Method Man&comma; Raekwon&comma; Ghostface Killah&comma; Inspectah Deck&comma; U-God&comma; Masta Killa and Ol&&num;8217&semi; Dirty Bastard&period; The groups best-selling albums were Enter the Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang Forever<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Koza is seeking unspecified damages plus profits stemming from copyright infringement&period; His lawyer said in a phone interview that Shkreli &&num;8216&semi;didn&&num;8217&semi;t need to know&&num;8217&semi; the illustrations were protected to be liable&period; &&num;8216&semi;There is no intent requirement for copyright infringement&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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