Alan: I see this documentary as a case study revealing the "everyday" ways that wealthy, "respectable" people become involved in horrific white collar crimes.
Trump does it all the time.
It's his daily bread.
It's his daily bread.
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Frontline: A sales team that included models and a stripper. Payments of up to $125,000 a year. That's part of how Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company, bribed doctors to prescribe a highly addictive opioid painkiller that is 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin.
Today, both Insys' founder and its former VP of sales were sentenced to prison time for their roles in the scheme — putting U.S. pharmaceutical companies on notice that they could be held criminally liable for fueling America’s epidemic of opioid addiction.
A new reporting partnership between FRONTLINE and the Financial Times, announced today, will tell the inside story of the corruption behind Insys' spectacular rise and the federal prosecution that brought it down — beginning with today's joint reporting:
- In his first interview, Insys' former VP of sales, Alec Burlakoff, describes how he bribed doctors to prescribe Subsys, the company's powerful opioid medication that has been linked to hundreds of deaths. “It sounds ruthless, and it is ruthless,” he says of the techniques he used.
- Burlakoff was sentenced to 26 months in prison today. Insys' founder, John Kapoor, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years. A jointly published story examines the legal effort that secured the criminal convictions of Insys executives using laws designed to catch mob bosses, and what it could portend for other pharmaceutical companies.
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PLUS: Watch PBS NewsHour in the coming days for a special segment on Insys in collaboration with FRONTLINE and the FT — and stay tuned for a documentary and a podcast series this spring, as our reporting collaboration continues to unfold.
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