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Ex-drug company execs face reckoning in opioid bribery case

by Associated Press
| January 13, 2020 12:05 AM

BOSTON (AP) — The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning for their role in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say boosted sales of a powerful, highly addictive painkiller and helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.

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