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N.J. attorney general names Insys founder Kapoor as defendant in opioid false-claims lawsuit

The suit says billionaire John N. Kapoor and Insys pushed an opioid fentanyl-based painkiller, Subsys, on patients.

Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves U.S. District Court in Phoenix in October, where he was arrested on charges of leading a nationwide conspiracy to bribe doctors and pharmacists to widely prescribe an opioid cancer drug for people who didn’t need it. Kapoor was arraigned in the case Thursday in federal court in Boston.
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves U.S. District Court in Phoenix in October, where he was arrested on charges of leading a nationwide conspiracy to bribe doctors and pharmacists to widely prescribe an opioid cancer drug for people who didn’t need it. Kapoor was arraigned in the case Thursday in federal court in Boston.Read moreRoss D. Franklin / Associated Press
    by Linda Loyd
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