Embattled pharma bro Martin Shkreli's terrible week gets worse with Twitter hack

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Marcus Gilmer
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It's been a rough week for now-former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and Wu-Tang enthusiast Martin Shkreli as the most-derided man on the Internet saw his Twitter account hacked on Sunday.

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Strange, expletive-laden tweets were posted on Sunday to Shkreli's account and, as of 7 p.m. ET, were still up. (Though, to some, the tweet, "I am now a god" could very well seemed to have come from Shkreli, who's not exactly known for being humble.)

Giving away WUTANG album RT for a chance to win— Martin The God (@MartinShkreli) December 20, 2015

And, yes, that special Wu-Tang album came up in the hack tweets.

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The FBI arrested Shkreli on Thursday after an investigation into a pharmaceutical company he started (Retrophin Inc.) and his former hedge fund. Shkreli allegedly used Retrophin as his "personal piggy bank" to pay off debts owed to investors in his hedge fund, according to U.S. Attorney Robert Capers.

He was later replaced as CEO of Turing.

Additional reporting by Jason Abbruzzese.

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