According to Reuters, the founder of Insys Therapeutics and four colleagues were found guilty on Thursday of bribing doctors to prescribe the drugmaker’s addictive painkiller, helping to drive the U.S. opioid drug abuse crisis.
A federal jury in Boston found John Kapoor, guilty of racketeering conspiracy for a scheme that also misled insurers into paying for the drug. Kapoor is the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive convicted in a case tied to a drug crisis that has led to tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually.
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