5 PHARMA EXECS FOUND GUILTY IN FENTANYL CASE

The billionaire founder of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and four other top execs were found guilty Thursday of racketeering in a scheme that involved giving bribes and kickbacks to physicians to prescribe large amounts of a fentanyl spray to patients who didn’t need the painkiller. After 15 days of deliberations, a jury in Boston federal court found CEO and founder John Kapoor guilty of conspiracy charges of racketeering. The case is considered the first in federal court involving executives of an opioid manufacturing company.