Former CEO to plead guilty in opioid kickback scheme case

BOSTON (AP) — The former CEO of a company that produces a highly addictive fentanyl spray has agreed to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to pay kickbacks to doctors to boost prescriptions of the drug.
Former Insys Therapeutics CEO Michael Babich’s guilty plea agreement was revealed by prosecutors in court documents filed this week.
Babich was among several executives of the Arizona-based company charged in the closely-watched case scheduled to go to trial next month. Insys f