Those assets had included the Lil Wayne album "Tha Carter V," an engraving on paper by Pablo Picasso and $5 million held in an E-Trade brokerage account. Shkreli's trial lawyer Benjamin Brafman in an email to CNBC confirmed that the balance of Shkreli's forfeiture was satisfied by the sale. Brafman also wrote, "I can also confirm that the sale price was substantially more than what Mr. Shkreli paid for it." Brafman declined to answer whether Shkreli would receive any of the proceeds of the sale after the amount taken to satisfy the forfeiture. Shkreli bought the Wu-Tang Clan album at auction for a reported $2 million in 2015 — giving him the only copy of the record, and allowing the New York City resident total control of whether anyone else could listen to the music on it.