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 — prompting Shkreli to lash out and tell reporters to “lick my balls.” “
The high school’s crypto club has invited the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive to speak at an after-school meeting to share his “views” on the financial industry, the club wrote in a poster promoting the event.
He will also talk about the future of cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the pharmaceutical sector, the Daily Beast reported.
Shkreli, now 40 and out of jail, even hype the event on Xcalls Brooklyn Tech “one of my cross-town rivals growing up” and says he has “great memories of talking to the smartest kids in NYC.”
But on its Instagram Story on Monday night, the Brooklyn Tech High School Crypto Club announced that the event was “indefinitely postponed” after the New York City Department of Education found out about the scheduled speech and saw it as a “bad PR risk.”
“I believe this violates our freedom of speech, expression and learning,” wrote the club’s president.
Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli was set to speak at an after-school event at Brooklyn Technical High School on Tuesday, but it was abruptly canceled. Reuters
“I stand by my word when I say that I will ensure that the event takes place, whether with support from the DoE 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 about the scheduled event, and as a result “about 16 [year olds] will not get the event they want.
“Mothers, I’m going to organize a march in Brooklyn with a Harambe float in front of the DoE building, you don’t know me,” he wrote.
Shkreli too a screenshot sharing a private conversation he had with the reporterwhere he said he believed the event would be rescheduled off campus.
The high school’s crypto club has invited the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive to speak at an after-school meeting to share his “views” on the financial industry. bthscryptoclub / Instagram
He later told reporters: “I’m not angry. Less work for me is better. I love 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 not good for me because I’m lazy as I said before in this quote,” he said, adding that the cancellation of the event freed him. to 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 rose to prominence in 2015 when his Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired the rights to life-saving cancer and AIDS drug Daraprim, and raised the price from $13.50 per pill to $750.
He was later 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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