Convicted fraudster and so-called “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli was scheduled to speak to students at Brooklyn Technical High School on Tuesday, but administrators reportedly canceled the event at the last minute. As a result, Shkreli became furious, telling reporters to “fuck me''. ball. ”
A high school cryptocurrency club had invited a disgraced former pharmaceutical executive to speak at an after-school meeting to share “insights” about the financial industry and the club. This is what I wrote on the poster advertising the event.
He also talks about cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and the future of the pharmaceutical sector. The Daily Beast reported.
Shkreli, now 40 years old, has been released from prison. Promoted an event on Xcalled Brooklyn Tech “one of my crosstown competitors growing up,” and said he has “fond memories of talking to some of the brightest kids in New York.”
but Monday night on Instagram Stories.the Brooklyn Technical High School Cryptography Club announced that the event had been “indefinitely postponed” after the New York City Department of Education learned of the scheduled speech and deemed it a “bad PR risk.”
“We believe this violates our freedom of speech, expression, and learning,” the club president wrote.
“I stand by my word that the event will happen with or without support from the Department of Energy.”
When a Daily Beast reporter later contacted Mr. Shkreli to confirm that the event had been canceled, Mr. Shkreli said that the reporter had informed the Department of Education of the scheduled event, which resulted in “approximately 16 “people participated,” he said. [year olds] They won't be able to get the event they wanted.
“Moms, I'm hosting a parade in Brooklyn in front of the State Department building on a Harambe float. You don't know me.” he wrote
Shkreli too He shared a screenshot of a private conversation he had with a reporter.in which he said he believed the event would be rescheduled off-campus.
Afterwards, he told reporters: For me, less work is better. I like having fans, but I'm lazy and don't want to work for them.
“So, I hope it's canceled, but I think I'll do it somewhere else. Like I said at the beginning of this quote, I'm lazy, so that's not good for me,” he said. , plays a video game, adding that the cancellation of the event will free him.
“Lick my balls while you're at it.”
The Post has reached out to the Department of Education and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute for comment.
Mr. Shkreli gained notoriety in 2015 when his Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired the rights to the lifesaving cancer and AIDS drug Daraprim and hiked its price from $13.50 to $750 per pill. .
Then, in 2017, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud and was barred from the industry.
Shkreli was released from prison in May 2022 and has since created an AI chat platform.
