sábado, 16 de febrero de 2019

Insys sales reps rapped about fentanyl sales

Morning Rounds
Megan Thielking

Insys sales reps rapped about fentanyl sales 

Jurors in a federal court in Boston were shown a video yesterday of Insys employees rapping about selling the company's fentanyl spray to the tune of an A$AP Rocky song. The video features someone dancing as a life-size bottle of Subsys — at the end of the video, that's revealed to be Alec Burlakoff, the former vice president of sales at Insys. The video was played during proceedings in a court case against five former Insys execs, including co-founder John Kapoor. They're charged with taking part in a nationwide racketeering scheme to allegedly push doctors to prescribe Subsys — a fentanyl spray approved for cancer-related pain — to patients who didn’t have cancer. Burlakoff and former CEO Michael Babich have pleaded guilty in the alleged scheme. Read more here

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