Cries of "karma!" rang around the world when pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, widely reviled for hiking the price of an anti-AIDS drug, was arrested at his Murray Hill home on securities fraud charges Thursday morning.
In keeping with his "pharma bro" persona, Shkreli made his perp walk out of 26 Federal Plaza in a grey hoodie.
Shkreli, 32, has kept a high-profile since September, when his company acquired the antiparasitic drug Daraprim—used primarily to treat AIDS patients—and jacked up its price from $13.50 a pill to $750. Earlier this month, it was reported that the executive had outbid all his competitors to purchase the only existing copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” for $2 million. And this week, in an interview with HipHopDX, Shkreli offered to to pay jailed rapper Bobby Shmurda’s $2 million bail.
That all makes plenty of fodder for a gleeful outpouring of schadenfreude still flooding Twitter:
The grey hoodie inspired some Eminem jokes
The lyrics of "Lose Yourself" really take us back to the early aughts, when Skhreli was just a student at Baruch College.
And it echoed one of Lindsay Lohan's finer moments
Here's some advice on where to get your own hooded garment, for all those moments you want to make your best impression in the public spotlight.
Shkreli's arrest gave us a chance to call back a classic "Chapelle Show" sketch
If only the most hated man in America had taken the Wu-Tang Clan's advice: "You got to diversify your bonds, n****a."
In its delight over Shkreli getting his just desserts, the Internet didn't forget about "Star Wars"
We can safely say Shkreli crossed over to the dark side long ago. (If you need more evidence, here's a video of his creepy attemps to flirt with a 17-year-old female high school student.)
Some were hesitant to join the vindicated masses in their jubilant chorus
But it didn't actually stop them from chiming in.
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