In March, the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Rochester Drug Cooperative. It claims that the distributor purchased painkillers in bulk, flooded communities with them, and ignored clear signs of their harm. Further, the lawsuit says that RDC based its business model “on all the opioids it could sell.” Read the Full Post […]
By Jeff Overley Law360 (July 19, 2019, 8:35 PM EDT) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s newest indictment of a painkiller distributor and its executives strongly suggests that the agency has embarked on a calculated criminal crackdown after years of civil enforcement failed to ease the opioid epidemic. The criminal charges announced Thursday against distributor […]
Between May 2012 and November 2016, Pharmacy-1 received more than $10.5 million in dividends from RDC, federal authorities allege. Court papers show that Pharmacy-1 is based in the same location as Linden Care. “It’s clearly Linden Care,” Fuller family attorney Hollawell said of Pharmacy-1. (Hollawell and another New Jersey attorney, Mark Dewland, represent the Fullers.) […]
The fight against opioids hit Big Pharma Thursday as the billionaire founder of a drug company that bribed doctors to push deadly fentanyl for off-label use was convicted racketeering along with four of his former co-conspirator colleagues at Insys Therapeutics. Read the full story – www.bostonherald.com
A major pharmaceutical distribution company and two of its former executives are facing criminal charges for their roles in advancing the nation’s opioid crisis and profiting from it. Read the full article: www.npr.org
A scandal-plagued opioid manufacturer will soon go on trial in a federal criminal case with implications for a spate of Kansas lawsuits. Top executives of Insys Therapeutics, including billionaire founder John Kapoor, are facing charges that they bribed doctors to get them to prescribe their powerful fentanyl spray, Subsys. Read the full article here: www.kansascity.com
WICHITA, KAN. – Wichita physician Steven R. Henson was sentenced today to life in federal prison for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. “I want this case to send a message to physicians and the health care community,” McAllister said. “Unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances is a federal crime that […]
Alec Burlakoff was the larger-than-life executive who told his employees to watch the film, “Wolf of Wall Street,” for sales tips. He smoked pot with doctors and paid for their lap dances at strip clubs, bragging in texts to fellow executives at Insys Therapeutics about what a good time he had showed them. Read […]
In the summer of 2015, Michael Babich noticed a marked change in his relationship with John Kapoor, the man who had mentored him and made him CEO of his opioid manufacturing company. Kapoor, the founder of Insys Therapeutics, used to call him six or seven times a day, Babich testified in federal court Thursday, but […]
Joanne Rivera, 35, is one of 13 people indicted Wednesday in connection with alleged crimes at Advanced Urgent Care of Philadelphia, federal authorities said Wednesday. AUC employees allegedly issued more than 3,600 illegal prescriptions from offices in Philadelphia, Montgomeryville and Willow Grove, aaccording to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia. It alleges the practice offered […]