{"id":179363,"date":"2018-03-06T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/should-i-start-a-gofundme\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:26:00","slug":"should-i-start-a-gofundme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/should-i-start-a-gofundme\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Start a GoFundMe?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cg7p1kZ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cg7p1kZ.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Poster child for backpfeifengesicht, a face that needs to be punched<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Pharma bro <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/03\/shkreli-will-lose-his-wu-tang-album-judge-orders-forfeiture-of-7-36-million\/\">Martin Shkreli will have to forfeit $7.6 million<\/a>, including his copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album <i>Once Upon A Time in Shaolin<\/i> as a result.<\/p>\n<p>My heart bleeds borscht:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The disgraced pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager&nbsp;Martin Shkreli&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/f89e404e-25fc-4d7e-8580-9ee461b2b3a6.pdf\">must forfeit $7.36 million in assets<\/a> (PDF) to the federal government following his fraud conviction, a judge ruled Monday. The<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/f89e404e-25fc-4d7e-8580-9ee461b2b3a6.pdf\"> assets set for forfeiture<\/a> (PDF) include the single copy of the Wu-Tang album <i>Once Upon A Time in Shaolin<\/i> that Shkreli reportedly bought for $2 million, as well as a painting by Pablo Picasso.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The forfeiture follows Shkreli\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/08\/shkreli-verdict-guilty-on-three-of-eight-counts-of-securities-and-wire-fraud\/\">conviction last October<\/a>&nbsp;on three of eight counts of securities and wire fraud. The federal government had indicted Shkreli in December of 2015 for <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/12\/turing-pharmaceuticals-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-security-fraud\/\">running a Ponzi-like scheme<\/a>,  alleging he defrauded investors in two hedge funds he managed and  siphoned millions from his pharmaceutical company, Retrophin, to cover  losses.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, the horror.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">For the snark impaired, if I do actually start a GoFundMe, it will be done ironically.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poster child for backpfeifengesicht, a face that needs to be punched Pharma bro Martin Shkreli will have to forfeit $7.6 million, including his copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin as a result. My heart bleeds borscht: The disgraced pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager&nbsp;Martin Shkreli&nbsp;must forfeit $7.36 million in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,456,575,567,486],"class_list":["post-179363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-finance","tag-fraud","tag-pharma","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}