NEW: Wealthy drug company founder convicted Thursday of directing a scheme to bribe doctors across the US to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray.
Prosecutors said Insys staffers also misled insurers about patients' medical conditions and posed as doctors' office employees in order to get payment approved for the costly drug.
Kapoor's attorney sought to shift the blame onto the company's former vice president of sales, Alec Burlakoff, who pleaded guilty to the bribe scheme in November. Attorney Beth Wilkinson said Burlakoff was cutting side deals with doctors on his own and lied when he testified against Kapoor because he's trying to save himself.
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