In January 2014, Army Sgt. Thai Lee had just finished breakfast on his base in Pasab, Afghanistan. He was preparing his armor for another mission scouring the road for homemade bombs, when he felt the earth shake. He grabbed his rifle and ran to the scene of the attack. Several explosions later, Lee felt a searing heat between his legs. After a few steps, he collapsed and blacked out, NBC News reported. Three days later at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Lee learned the extent of his injuries: he’d suffered a stroke and a neck wound that had partially paralyzed the left side of his body; he was hit in the stomach and lost part of his intestines; his penis had been severely cut; one testicle had been blown off, and the other crushed. Hope arrived when Walter Reed urologist Col. Robert Dean told Lee about a breakthrough in fertility medicine that might help him father a child.
Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli within a two-day period this week offered $5,000 bounties for people who plucked some of Hillary Clinton's hair from her head and gave it to him, and also put his one-of-a-kind copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album up for sale after having bought it for $2 million more than two years ago, CNBC reported.
Shkreli's Clinton hair prize offer led to an inquiry from the U.S. Secret Service, according to Shkreli himself.
And his eBay auction of Wu-Tang's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" as of late Wednesday had attracted a top bid of more than $710,000.
Shkreli, 34, was convicted in Brooklyn federal court in early August of three counts of securities fraud, but was acquitted of five other criminal counts. Shkreli was accused by prosecutors of defrauding a group of hedge fund investors, and then of ripping off the drug company he founded, Retrophin, to pay back their money.
