The US government wants to seize Martin Shkreli's one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album.
The recording that Shkreli has boasted he bought for US$2 million ($2.9m) is on a list of assets that prosecutors argue the jailed former pharmaceutical chief executive should forfeit after his conviction earlier this year in a securities fraud scheme involving two failed hedge funds.
In a letter filed this week in Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors told a judge that Shkreli is on the hook for US$7.3m.
The 34-year-old "should be held financially responsible and forfeit this amount as it was obtained by him as a result of the fraud," the letter says.
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