As an­titrust case wraps, Mar­tin Shkre­li's lawyers say they're owed $2M+ in un­paid le­gal fees

Ap­par­ent­ly a $25 mil­lion judg­ment isn’t the on­ly thing Mar­tin Shkre­li can’t pay.

The law firm that de­fend­ed Shkre­li in an an­titrust case said he owes them at least $2 mil­lion more in un­paid fees and costs. And they want out.

The mo­tion to with­draw as coun­sel comes af­ter a fed­er­al judge ruled that he con­coct­ed an an­ti­com­pet­i­tive scheme to stave off gener­ics for a life-sav­ing an­tipar­a­sitic. Shkre­li, who’s now serv­ing a sev­en-year prison term for an un­re­lat­ed crim­i­nal fraud case, be­came in­fa­mous for jack­ing the price of the same drug, known as Dara­prim, al­though he didn’t face any le­gal con­se­quences for that.

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