Former sales exec says opioid maker Insys bribed doctors to prescribe drugs.
The first cooperating witness, former CEO Michael Babich, testified last month. Burlakoff is the second. Their testimony against their former colleagues is part of a mountain of evidence prosecutors are bringing to build a groundbreaking case to hold pharmaceutical executives accountable.
"INSYS Therapeutics in no way defends the past misconduct of former employees and is fully cooperating with the government," the company said in a statement. The rap, set to the tune of"F---in' Problems" by A$AP Rocky, featured two employees rapping about their strategies to recruit doctors to prescribe their addictive product.
A rap video created for the Insys 2015 national sales meeting features head of sales Alec Burlakoff dressed as a dancing bottle of the company's highly addictive fentanyl-based pain drug, Subsys. Burlakoff has pleaded guilty and testified in federal court on Friday.of the company last year, which found that sales representatives were encouraged to pressure doctors to increase doses. The investigation, led by then-Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
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