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Drug Firm Founder Guilty of Bribing Doctors to Push Opioid
former founder of pharmaceutical company, Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, 76-year-old, was accused of bribing doctors across the U.S. to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray, and was convicted Thursday, May 2, in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.
BOSTON—A pharmaceutical company founder accused of bribing doctors across the United States to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday, May 2, 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 former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations. Four ex-employees of the Chandler, Arizona-based company, including the former exotic dancer, were also convicted.
