MARTIN Shkreli has taken a wipe at Twitter shortly after being released early from prison in Pennsylvania.
The convicted fraudster known as the "Pharma bro" has been moved to a halfway house in New York, where he will complete the rest of his sentence, according to his lawyer.
Shkreli shared a selfie on his Facebook page and wrote: "Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison."
One of his friends tweeted the news on Wednesday, claiming he was picking up the felon from jail, CNBC reported.
“Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he’s famous," the friend wrote alongside a picture of the two smiling in a car.
“I am pleased to report that Martin Shkreli has been released from Allenwood prison and transferred to a BOP halfway house after completing all programs that allowed for his prison sentence to be shortened,” said Shkreli's lawyer Ben Brafman.
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In 2018, Shkreli, 39, was sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Shkreli is a former hedge fund manager for Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, and MSMB Healthcare.
He is also the co-founder and former chief executive officer of the biotechnology firm Retrophin and founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.
Infamously labeled as "Pharma Bro" by the media, Shkreli was criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the drug Daraprim, an Aids drug.
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He then hiked the prices by nearly 5,000 percent overnight in August 2015.
At the time, Shkreli was dubbed "the most hated man in the world" after increasing the price and while price gouging is not uncommon in the US Pharmaceutical Industry, he became the poster boy for corporate excess.
Following his conviction, Shkreli was ordered to forfeit $5 million from his ETrade account as well as $2.36 million in other assets, including a Pablo Picasso painting and the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
On July 27, 2021, it was announced that the US government had sold the album to an anonymous buyer for an unreleased price.
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"With today's sale of this one-of-a-kind album, his payment of the forfeiture is now complete."
Shkreli had previously purchased the album at a 2015 auction for $2 million.
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