Pharma Execs Made A Rap Video In Which They Danced With A Giant Bottle Of Fentanyl Spray
WASHINGTON ― Pharmaceutical sales representatives selling an opioid-based drug 50 times more powerful than heroin filmed a company-made rap video in which they danced with a giant bottle of their deadly fentanyl spray, a federal grand jury alleged in an indictment unsealed this week.
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’s national sales meeting that year. The anecdote was mentioned in an indictment unsealed this week against John Kapoor, the 74-year-old billionaire founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc., which alleges that the company engaged in a nationwide conspiracy involving bribing doctors to prescribe the fentanyl-based medication.
“Throughout 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,” the superseding indictment alleged. The video ended with the company’s vice president of sales removing the Fentanyl Spray costume, revealing his identity.
The vice president of sales, Alec Burlakoff, was previously indicted back in May. Burlakoff has been accused of trying to boost drug sales by controversial means before. According to the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, he was fired from Eli Lilly in 2003 for his role in mailing unsolicited samples of Prozac in an attempt to increase slumping sales.
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