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Martin Shkreli Canceled Cryptocurrency Talk at Brooklyn Tech
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Posted Jan 9, 2024, 9:38am ET
Fraudster convicted and the so-called “pharmaceutical brother” Martin Shkreli was supposed to speak to students at Brooklyn Technical High School on Tuesday, but administrators reportedly canceled the event at the last minute, leading Shkreli to lash out and tell a reporter to “lick my balls.”
The high school crypto club had invited the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive to speak at its after-school meeting to share his “insights” on the financial industry, the club he wrote in a poster promoting the event.
He would also talk about the future of cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and the pharmaceutical sector, the Daily Beast reported.
Shkreli is now 40 years old and is even free from prison advertised the event oncalling Brooklyn Tech “one of my city rivals where I grew up” and saying he has “fond memories of talking to the brightest kids in New York.”
But on his Instagram story Monday nightBrooklyn Tech High School’s Crypto Club announced that the event was “postponed indefinitely” after the New York City Department of Education discovered the planned speech and saw it as a “bad public risk” relations”.
“I believe this violates our freedoms of speech, expression and learning,” the club president wrote.
Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli was scheduled to speak at an after-school event at Brooklyn Technical High School on Tuesday, but it was suddenly cancelled. REUTERS
“I stand by my words when I say that I will make sure the event takes place, with DoE support or not.”
When a Daily Beast reporter later contacted Shkreli to confirm that the event had been canceled, Shkreli accused the reporter of informing the Department of Education of the scheduled event and that as a result “about 16 [year olds] they won’t be able to get the event they wanted.
“Motherfuckers, I’m going to have a parade in Brooklyn on a Harambe float in front of the DoE building, you don’t know me,” he wrote.
Shkreli too shared screenshots of the private conversation had with the journalistin which he said he believes the event will be rescheduled off campus.
The high school crypto club had invited the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive to speak at its after-school meeting to share his “insights” on the financial industry. bthscryptoclub / Instagram
Then he told the reporter: “I’m not crazy. Less work is better for me. I like having fans, but I don’t want to work for them because I’m lazy.
“So it would be nice if it was canceled, but I think we’ll do it somewhere else, which is bad for me because I’m lazy, like I said earlier in this quote,” he said, adding that canceling the event frees him up . play video games.
“Also, lick my balls.”
The Post has reached out to the Department of Education and Brooklyn Tech for comment.
Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2017 for securities fraud and barred from the industry. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Shkreli became famous in 2015 when his Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired the rights to the life-saving cancer and AIDS drug Daraprim, and raised the price from $13.50 a pill to $750.
It was then sentenced to seven years in prison in 2017 for securities fraud and barred from the industry.
Shkreli was released from prison in May 2022 and has since created an AI chat platform.
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