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India-Born Billionaire Bribed Doctors With Cash, Strip Clubs, On Trial
A onetime billionaire who rose from modest means in India, John Kapoor on trial for using speakers' fees, dinners and cash to lure doctors into prescribing a highly addictive opioid painkiller meant solely for cancer patients.
The first prosecution of a pharmaceutical company chief executive tied to opioid overdoses begins this week, when Insys Therapeutics Inc.’s John Kapoor goes on trial. The fallout may jolt an industry facing steep penalties for its own role in the crisis.