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WhiteTara

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Tue Feb 9, 2016, 06:09 PM Feb 2016

Shkreli is sued over his $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album [View all]

http://news.yahoo.com/shkreli-sued-over-2-million-wu-tang-clan-160618766.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Shkreli faces a new legal headache, a lawsuit claiming that his $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album contains illustrations ripped off from a New York artist, who now wants the former drug executive to pay for them.

In a complaint filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Jason Koza said he never allowed his fan art depicting Wu-Tang members to be used in packaging for the hip-hop group's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," the sole copy of which Shkreli bought.

Shkreli has bragged that he had no plans to listen to the album, but bought it to "keep it from the people."

The 32-year-old is also known for sparking outrage last year among patients, doctors and politicians after his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of the anti-parisitic infection drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent.

Koza, 34, of Copiague, New York, said he thought his nine works would appear only on the website WuDisciples.blogspot.com.
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I don't see how Weasel Dick can be sued for this ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2016 #1
Koza's lawyer said this WhiteTara Feb 2016 #3
Shkreli is a first class shit bag Heeeeers Johnny Feb 2016 #2
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