Drug company founder, executives convicted of bribe scheme that fueled U.S. opioid crisis

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The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues were found guilty on T...

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 Snyder

A federal jury in Boston found John Kapoor, who served as the Chandler, Arizona-based drugmaker’s chairman, and his co-defendants guilty of racketeering conspiracy for a scheme that also misled insurers into paying for the drug. Prosecutors charged that Kapoor oversaw a wide-ranging scheme to bribe doctors nationwide by retaining them to act as speakers at sham events at restaurants ostensibly meant to educate clinicians about its fentanyl spray, Subsys.

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What about reckitt benckiser/Indivior? They pushed wrong studies with the help of the CDC to create the opioid crisis to sell their drugs...Suboxone and buprenophine.

Isn’t this how most companies promote and sell their products? Nothing that I read sounded different than how every sales job works. From textbooks to shower curtain rings. ?

How can Reuters continue to be so wrong? Lack of reading comprehension? Negligible research skills? Ineptitude? Idiocy? Articles are cringeworthy. Know how you curl your toes when watching a really bad actor? Singer? That’s we reading you. We in the know cringe. Shame

They made ILLEGAL Street Fentanyl and Heroin? That's where the real opioidcrisis is. Haven't you heard about the CDC counting 1 OD as many as 6 OD's? 1 OD for every drug/alcohol in the system of 1 person. Breaking that down for you... 1 person was counted as 6 people.

Lock him up and throw away the key! These are the worst of the drug dealers!

Doctors that took bribes need to be next. Life sentences for all.

Receives 48 hours of house arrest and $50 fine. Watch these guys get off with nothing. Injustice is nothing new under the realDonaldTrump administration. impeach45 ImpeachBarr ChickenBarr

These bastards along with the Drs who over prescribed the drugs should all be put in jail for life with out parole

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A bunch of rich pharmaceutical executives are responsible for escalating America's hard drug problem into a crisis, killing thousands, but will likely avoid justice when they pay off the right people? GET RIGHT OUTTA TOWN

That guy looks like TheLewisBlack

Lewis Black is innocent!

My God, his hair. How much Adderall has this man used?

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