In­sys founder, for­mer ex­ecs face decades in jail af­ter be­ing found guilty in land­mark opi­oid case

In­sys should’ve paid heed to this ill-fat­ed line from its own sales rap song. “If you want to be great, lis­ten to my voice. You can be great — but its your choice.” In­stead, its (for­mer) bil­lion­aire founder John Kapoor and four of his high rank­ing col­leagues were found guilty of en­gag­ing in a bribery scheme to get doc­tors to pre­scribe its po­tent, ad­dic­tive painkiller and dupe in­sur­ers in­to pay­ing for the drug, by a fed­er­al ju­ry on Thurs­day.

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