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In #SDNY Magistrates Court Dr Jeffrey Goldstein is now pleading guilty to 1 count: pushing opioids for speaker fees- thread
Dr Goldstein is 49, takes anxiety medication - but not apparently the opioids he took money to get his patients addicted to
Goldstein says took speaker fees from #Insys to push #Subsys fentanyl spray - $2200 as example. On bond until Jan 22
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New consumer fraud lawsuit filed today by our office against 3 former #Insys executives, including founder John Kapoor. Lawsuit seeks restitution for consumers, disgorgement of all profits from the alleged conduct, and a permanent sales & marketing ban. azag.gov/press-release/…
The lawsuit alleges that the three named defendants, including the founder of the company, engaged in a fraudulent marketing scheme designed to increase the sales of Insys’s flagship drug, Subsys, a highly addictive opioid prescription drug that contains fentanyl.
The lawsuit also alleges that Kapoor and Babich directed Insys’s employees to bribe health care providers with lucrative “speaker fees” in exchange for those doctors writing more prescriptions of Subsys.
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I'm back in court today for the second day of trial in the case of five former #Insys Therapeutics executives and managers including founder John Kapoor who are accused of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray.
The first witness will be Holly Brown, a former Insys sales representative, prosecutors said in court this morning.
Brown testifies that while at Insys, she was trained to not emphasize while promoting its fentanyl spray Subsys that it was only meant for cancer patients.
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