Opioid Rap Video Adding to John Kapoor’s Woes at Insys Trial (1)

Just over two weeks into the racketeering trial of Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor, a Boston jury has a new item to consider in a catalog of dubious tactics the company is accused of using to push sales of its opioid drug.

Prosecutors played a five-minute in-house rap video extolling the virtues of persuading doctors to prescribe higher doses of the Insys’s liquid opioid, Subsys, and featuring the company’s vice president of marketing Alec Burlakoff in a giant prescription bottle.

Borrowing its beat from an ASAP Rocky hit, the video was played for the jury, with federal prosecutors claiming ...