Founder of Insys Indicted for Bribing Docs to Illegally Prescribe Fentanyl. Lock Him Up!<\/a>“).<\/p>\n“The grand jury alleged that ‘prominent’ sales reps at Insys Therapeutics Inc. appeared in a 2015 music video that used a song by rapper A$AP Rocky, which was played at the company\u2019s national sales meeting that year…Court documents didn\u2019t say which A$AP Rocky song was used in the video, but the indictment documents strongly suggested it could be the 2012 song \u201cFuckin\u2019 Problems.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the video, Company employees danced with a life size, 1600 mcg bottle of the Fentanyl Spray, the largest dosage of the drug available for sale in the United States,\u201d the superseding indictment alleged. The video ended with the company\u2019s vice president of sales removing the Fentanyl Spray costume, revealing his identity. The vice president of sales, Alec Burlakoff, was previously indicted back in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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