Defense attorneys for pharmaceuticals fraudster Martin Shkreli say that federal prosecutors’ requests to throw him behind bars for 15 years and a judge’s order that he fork over $7.3 million is “far too severe” a punishment.

“For the government to ask for 15 years imprisonment and a substantial fine, on top of an already $7.3 million forfeiture judgment is not appropriate,” Shkreli’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman wrote in a letter to Brooklyn federal court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto.

Brafman attempted to justify Shkreli’s bad actions saying, “He is not evil or any of the other horrible things people have seen fit to say about him over the last several years…However, our society, our culture, and our judicial system can accommodate even Martin Shkreli.

“We do not crush people for being different, for offending sensibilities. We incorporate these people into our system and we try to treat them fairly, precisely because our system of justice tries to be fair,” Brafman wrote.

In the letter, Brafman repeated his request that Shkreli should only get 12 to 18 months in prison, with 2,000 hours of community service and court-mandated therapy.

The 34-year-old was convicted in Aug. 2017 of cheating hedge fund investors and faces up to 27 years in prison at his sentencing.

Shkreli gained notoriety after he dramatically raised the price of a life-saving drug overnight.

After his conviction, Shkreli offered $5,000 per strand for Hillary Clinton’s hair in a Facebook post—a move which got him tossed in jail last September while he awaits his sentencing.

The Brooklyn US attorney’s office declined to comment.