“Shkreli was released from a low-security federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, and transferred to community confinement overseen by the bureau,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) spokesperson said in a statement to Forbes. The “Pharma Bro’s” attorney Ben Brafman also told The Washington Post that his early release was because he had completed “all programs that allowed for his prison sentence to be shortened.”

A picture of Shkreli was posted to Twitter by a man named Edmund Sullivan, seemingly the first pic of the former executive since prison. Sullivan donned a shirt that read “FREE SHKRELI.”

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— Edmund Sullivan (@edmundsullivan) May 18, 2022

“Pharma Bro,” Shkreli’s insane price hike of a life-saving AIDS drug made him the “most hated man in America,” but the rap world had a particular disdain for him. In 2015, Shkreli emerged as the highest bidder for the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2015 album Once Upon a Time In Shaolin, their seventh album of which only one copy existed. Following Shkreli’s arrest, the project – which had been recorded in secret over the span of six years and is the most expensive piece of music ever sold – was confiscated and re-sold by the U.S. government.

In an e-mail sent to HipHopDX, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Jacquelyn M. Kasulis revealed the value of the album’s resale officially covered the outstanding balance of Shkreli’s $7.4 million fines that he owed after his conviction.

“Through the diligent and persistent efforts of this Office and its law enforcement partners, Shkreli has been held accountable and paid the price for lying and stealing from investors to enrich himself,” she said. “With today’s sale of this one-of-a-kind album, his payment of the forfeiture is now complete.”