Insys ‘Closer’ Lap-Danced to Boost Opioid Sales, Jury Told
- Sales reps wooed doctor at club for painkiller prescriptions
- Testimony came in racketeering trial of ex-Insys executives
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A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. sales manager performed a lap dance for a doctor being wooed to write more prescriptions for the company’s opioid painkiller, a Boston jury heard at the start of a racketeering trial against the company’s former chief executive.
Holly Brown, a former Insys sales representative in Chicago, said in 2012 she, her boss Sunrise Lee, and another Insys sales rep took Dr. Paul Madison to The Underground -- a high-end nightclub near the Chicago River. She then spotted Lee, a former stripper, and the physician in an intimate moment, Brown told the jury.