(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. “That’s a crime.”That’s what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said about Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in April, when he said was unaware that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, had protested...
BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Insys executives are guilty of paying doctors to boost sales of a fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients – actions that may have caused some people to become addicted to opioids – a jury determined Thursday afternoon. John Kapoor of Insys Therapeutics Inc....
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A corrections officer at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital after she was exposed to fentanyl, a high-concentration opioid. The officer was exposed during inmate intake, according to Sarah Gallagher, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections. "During an intake...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In light of the dramatic rise in devastating fentanyl overdose...
Marvin Parker faces a state prison sentence in the death of Jason Paul Jones. A New York man who traveled to Corry to sell drugs faces time in state prison after pleading guilty Thursday in the fentanyl overdose of a man who died in Crawford County...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc on Thursday became the highest-ranking drugmaker executive convicted in a case tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller, helping drive the...
John N. Kapoor, left, a defendant in the Insys trial, departs the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Jan. 29, 2019.Craig F. Walker | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesA Boston jury convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and several other executives of...
BOSTON — A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of Insys Therapeutics, a company that sold a fentanyl-based painkiller, guilty of criminal racketeering charges involving bribing doctors to prescribe dangerous opioids to patients who didn’t need them.The jury, after deliberating for 15 days,...
FILE PHOTO: John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc, arrives at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., January 28, 2019. REUTERS/Brian SnyderBOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues were found guilty on Thursday of bribing...
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston on Jan. 30. (Photo: Steven Senne, AP)BOSTON — The billionaire founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and four other top executives were found guilty on Thursday of racketeering in a scheme that involved giving bribes and kickbacks to physicians to...