May 2 (UPI) -- Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor was convicted Thursday of racketeering conspiracy involving bribes and kickbacks to physicians who prescribed large amounts of highly addictive fentanyl spray to patients. In federal court, a jury deliberated for 15 days before finding the Arizona-based...
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.John Kapoor, the 76-year-old...
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The feds brought down their fentanyl billionaire — make that former billionaire. John Kapoor, the founder, former chairman, and former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics, has been convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that involved bribing doctors and lying to insurance companies to boost sales of Subsys,...
No longer will pharmaceutical companies fear paying only a cost-of-doing business fine for illegally pushing their opioid medications onto an unsuspecting public. Now the executives may face serious prison time after Thursday's racketeering verdict against John Kapoor, the founder of a company who bribed doctors...
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Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push highly addictive fentanyl spray Updated: 5:48 PM EDT May 2, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BEEN CRIMINALLY CONVICTED. BILLIONAIRE JOHN KAPOOR AND FOUR OTHER FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE PHARMACUETIAL COMPANY INSY FOUND GUILTY OF RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY IN FEDERAL COURT. JURORS FOUND...
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