Day: February 4, 2020

Last week, the founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor (76), was sentenced to 66 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to bribe physicians to prescribe Subsys, a highly addictive form of fentanyl, to patients who did not need this drug. Five corporate executives, including Kapoor, were convicted of racketeering conspiracy. Under his leadership, John Kapoor exercised tight control over all decisions within Insys. At dinner parties, disguised as peer-to-peer educational lunches, prescribers received bribes and kickbacks for Subsys prescriptions