The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not review an appeal on racketeering charges by former opioid kingpin John Kapoor, who was convicted in 2019, and again in 2020, for bribing doctors to sell his company’s fentanyl-based pain medication.
Insys Therapeutics' top brass owes a collective $48.3 million in restitution for its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, a federal court in Boston ruled.
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Ex-Insys Sales Rep Evades Prison Over Opioid Bribe Ploy
Insys Execs Can't Dodge Prison During Appeal, Seek Delay
Insys Therapeutics Inc., the first drugmaker driven to bankruptcy by fallout from the opioid crisis, won court approval of a bankruptcy plan that pays less than a dime for each dollar it owes to the people, cities, states and tribes claiming damage from the drug epidemic.
Former executives at Insys, the maker of powerful fentanyl spray Subsys, have been hammered hard by federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging kickbacks probe that also led to the company's bankruptcy. Now, another former C-suite executive is facing prison time for his role in the scheme.Â
When Insys founder John Kapoor was found guilty on federal racketeering charges in May, it marked the stiffest conviction yet for an opioid executive at the center of the nation's addiction crisis. Now, a federal judge says prosecutors failed to present enough evidence to support some of those claims—likely lowering Kapoor's sentence.