Remember Martin Shkreli, who became known as “Pharma Bro” after hiking up the price on a cancer treatment drug from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill?
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is now seeking more than $4.6 million just in 2014 unpaid taxes from the former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO, Gawker reported on Thursday.
Shkreli, allegedly owes $3,431.85 from 2013 and $4,625,496.70 from 2014. The lien was prepared on December 18, 2015 and filed with the Office of the City Register on January 11, 2016. Shkreli is facing federal securities fraud charges in Brooklyn, but neither he nor his attorney have commented on the matter.
Earlier this month, federal prosecutors had revealed that one of Shkreli’s E-trade brokerage accounts, initially worth about $45 million had shrunk considerably, to less than $5 million, thereby endangering his bail.
On top of that, Raw Story reports that Shkreli also faces a $2 million lawsuit from artist Jason Koza, who argues that his artwork was illegally featured in a Wu-Tang Clan album Shkreli said he bought because he wanted to “keep it from the people.”
Karma? Watch “Happy Martin Shkreli Got Arrested Day!” goodbye song by Jonathan Mann on Youtube here:
Youtube video “Happy Martin Shkreli Got Arrested Day!” by Jonathan Mann. Permission to show under Creative Commons.
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