Insys Founder Kapoor Indicted on Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges

The founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics intends to fight federal racketeering and conspiracy charges that could, if he is convicted, send him to prison for decades.John N. Kapoor, Ph.D., 74, of Phoenix, AZ, was arrested yesterday on felony charges stemming from what federal prosecutors alleged was a nationwide conspiracy to profit by bribing doctors and pharmacists to prescribe the opioid agonist Subsys ® (fentanyl sublingual spray), indicated for patients with cancer pain.Dr. K