Martin Shkreli keeps his promise, sells punch to woman for $50k

Ex-Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli will allow a Florida woman to punch him after she agreed to donate $50,000, according to ABC25 WPBF news.

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Mr. Shkreli declared a woman named Katie from Florida as the winner of the bid and agreed to match her donation of $50,000. The donation will go toward a friend of Mr. Shkreli’s whose six-year-old child is battling cancer.

Mr. Shkreli announced the contest on Twitter on Wednesday.

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