Thursday, January 23, 2020

Too Little or too Much? Founder of Arizona Pharmaceutical Company Gets 5 1/2 Years for Bribery and Kickback Scheme that Helped Fuel Opioid Crisis

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Thu, Jan 23, 2020 10:46 p.m.

The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend 5 1/2 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/ex-pharmaceutical-exec-gets-5-12-years-for-pushing-opioid

PGCE-P: Five years?

WTF?

How many died because of this drug dealer?


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just another grifting Indian POS who should rot the rest of his life in jail - or be deported.
The whole point of the design of the simple fentanyl inhaler was to get people instantly addicted.
The company was a stinking cesspool of corruption - from top to bottom - including having employees act in a promotional 'rap' video:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insys-executives-used-rap-video-to-push-sales-of-highly-addictive-opioid/

'Prosecutors said a five-minute rap video debuted at an Insys sales conference in 2015. In it, two young salesmen promote the powerful fentanyl spray Subsys. The message: encourage Insys sales representatives to push doctors to increase the strength of Subsys prescriptions until a patient reaches the adequate dosage. It's a process known as "titration."
"I love titrations. Yeah, that's not a problem. I got new patients, and I got a lot of 'em. If you want to be great, listen to my voice. You can be great, but it's your choice," the salesmen in the video rapped.'

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/ex-pharmaceutical-exec-gets-5-12-years-for-pushing-opioid :

'During the trial, jurors heard from former employees who said Insys made a habit of hiring attractive women as representatives to boost sales of the drug. One former employee testified that a regional sales manager once gave a LAP DANCE at a Chicago nightclub to a doctor whom Insys was pushing to write more prescriptions.'

'John Nath Kapoor (born 1942/1943) is an Indian American billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur. In 2017, Kapoor was arrested and charged with RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law.'

Another 'model minority' doing the job - wholesale murder - that Americans won't do.

Anonymous said...

That is about a normal sentence in most of these cases. I know of a man who served two years of a five year sentence for his role in a triple homicide. Very lenient in the USA.