John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc., leaves the federal courthouse during the trial accusing Insys executives of a wide-ranging scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication, in Boston, Mass., on March 13, 2019. Brian Snyder/Reuters
The former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company, was sentenced to 66 months in prison after he was found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe an opioid.
John Kapoor, 76, who founded Insys, is the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to get sentenced in a case related to the opioid crisis, which has decimated communities across America.
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