Kapoor Deserves 15 Years for Opioid-Crisis Role, U.S. Says (2)

John Kapoor should serve 15 years in prison for leading a racketeering conspiracy that helped fuel the national opioid crisis with bribes to boost prescriptions of a highly addictive painkiller, federal prosecutors said.

Four other former executives at Insys Therapeutics Inc., who were convicted at trial along with Kapoor, the former chief executive officer, deserve prison terms ranging from six to 11 years, the U.S. said in a court filing on Wednesday. Kapoor, 76, was the first CEO convicted in a federal opioid trial.

John Kapoor on Jan. 29.

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“Sheer greed caused each of the defendants in this case not only to participate ...