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Trump Refuses Big Pharma Money - Charges Rochester Drug CEO


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2019 Apr 25, 4:47pm   770 views  3 comments

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What will Biden, Booker, Harris, etc. do?


President Donald Trump spurned campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry on Wednesday, calling the industry out for its role in a national opioid addiction epidemic.

“I don’t want their money,” Trump said at an event on drug addiction in Atlanta. “They have got to do what is right.”

The industry hasn’t been a big donor to Trump, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2016, he got just $386,862 from donors working for pharmaceutical firms. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton received $2.7 million from them. The industry doesn’t rank among the top 20 sources of money for Trump’s re-election campaign, which has gotten the bulk of its support from small-dollar donors giving in amounts of $200 or less.

Trump’s administration has stepped up scrutiny of pharmaceutical companies as part of an initiative to combat addiction to prescription painkillers. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged opioid distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former chief executive with felonies -- the first case of its kind related to the opioid crisis.

“We are holding big pharma accountable,” Trump said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/trump-opioid-pharmaceutical-donors

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1   Patrick   2019 Apr 25, 5:58pm  

That's why they hate him. He can't be bought or ordered to obey the swamp creatures.
2   HeadSet   2019 Apr 26, 7:02am  

Patrick says
That's why they hate him. He can't be bought or ordered to obey the swamp creatures.


What would anyone bribe him with? Money? Women? He would have the briber beat on both.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 May 3, 12:49pm  

UPDATE: Convicted of bribing doctors with speakerships at fake educational events, defrauding insurance companies to sell more fentanyl for non-cancerous diagnoses, a powerful and dangerous opiate.


BOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc on Thursday became the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive to be convicted in a case tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller.

A federal jury in Boston found John Kapoor, the drugmaker’s former chairman, and his co-defendants guilty of racketeering conspiracy for engaging in a scheme that also misled insurers into paying for the drug.

Kapoor’s 2017 arrest came on the same day U.S. President Donald Trump declared the epidemic that has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually a public health emergency.

Kapoor, 76, was found guilty of running a wide-ranging scheme to bribe doctors nationwide by retaining them to act as speakers at sham events at restaurants ostensibly meant to educate clinicians about its fentanyl spray, Subsys.

Prosecutors said Kapoor also directed efforts to defraud insurers who were reluctant to pay for Subsys. His co-defendants were former Insys executives and managers Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan.

They face up to 20 years in prison. They denied wrongdoing, and defense lawyers signaled plans to appeal.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insys-opioids/founder-execs-of-drug-company-guilty-in-conspiracy-that-fed-opioid-crisis-idUSKCN1S81VB

President Booker would never do this.

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