former founder of pharmaceutical company, Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, 76-year-old, was accused of bribing doctors across the U.S. to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray, and was convicted Thursday, May 2, in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is in custody following a securities probe