MONEY TALKS EVERYONE WALKS –
August 25, 2021 – He remains the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive convicted for helping fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.
His co-defendants Michael Gurry, Sunrise Lee, Joseph Rowan and Richard Simon were sentenced to terms of one to 2-3/4 years. A lower court judge had set aside some of the jury findings, but the appeals court restored the original verdicts.
“This decision is a decisive win that vindicates the jury’s verdict and preserves a just outcome for the defendants and the victims,” Acting U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Mendell in Boston said in a statement.
Kapoor’s lawyer declined to comment. Lee’s lawyer Peter Horstmann said “there are no words to adequately express my displeasure with the court’s opinion.” Lawyers for the other defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Prosecutors said Insys used sham “speaker programs,” ostensibly to educate the medical field, as a means to pay bribes and kickbacks to doctors who prescribed Subsys, often to non-cancer patients.
