Insys Manager Gets 33 Months in Prison for Opioid-Fraud Role (1)

A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. vice president was sentenced to 33 months in prison for a fraud and bribery plot, the first of seven company executives -- including founder John Kapoor -- to face punishment for their roles in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic.

Michael Gurry, 56, the former vice president of managed markets, oversaw an Insys call center in Arizona where employees boosted sales of the company’s painkiller Subsys by falsely claiming to insurers that patients were suffering from cancer pain. Gurry was convicted along with Kapoor and others after a trial in May.

“Each call, each lie, created ...