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Insys exec allegedly gave lap dance to doctor while pushing deadly opioid
A former regional sales director for Insys Therapeutics allegedly gave a lap dance to a doctor as the company was pushing him to prescribe its deadly opioid painkiller to patients. That's according to multiple reports of testimony given Tuesday from a former Insys colleague in a federal court in Boston.
The testimony is part of a federal racketeering trial getting underway this week against Insys founder John Kapoor and four former executives, including the sales director, Sunrise Lee. Federal prosecutors allege that the Insys executives used bribes and kickbacks to get doctors to prescribe the company's powerful and addictive fentanyl spray, called Subsys—which was intended only for cancer patients experiencing pain that's not alleviated by other medications (aka "breakthrough pain"). The former executives are also accused of misleading and defrauding health insurance companies that ended up covering the drug for patients who did not need it. A congressional investigation in 2017 concluded that Insys sales representatives bluntly lied and tricked insurers to do that—and the investigators released the tapes to prove it.
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The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @08:48PM (4 children)
The corruption has gotten flat out trashy!
(Score: 1) by evilcam on Friday February 01 2019, @02:32AM (3 children)
My initial thought was that the Sales Director was the one doing the dancing.
"Make it rain, gurl, make it rain"
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday February 01 2019, @01:30PM (2 children)
I think that she was.
FTFA:
> [Sales directory] Lee, a former stripper, had no experience in the pharmaceutical industry before working at Insys, prosecutors noted... Brown recalled ... “She [Lee] was sitting on his lap, kind of bouncing around, and he had his hands all over her chest.’’
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:06PM (1 child)
If I knew then what I know now I would have gone to med school!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:56PM
It's not as fun as it sounds when your're working with a cadaver.