Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Scum of the earth award

May I have the envelope please? And the winner is: John Kapoor. Actually I was originally going to give it to this schtickdreck, Rhode Island physician (now defrocked) Jerrold Rosenberg. Rosenberg took $188,000 from Kapoor's company to prescribe an opioid formulation containing fentanyl. It is only approved for what's called "breakthrough" cancer pain, which means pain that can't be controlled by more conventional opioid formulations. Since the patients didn't actually have cancer, Rosenberg also had to defraud their insurance companies. The story doesn't say whether any of his patients became opioid addicts, or maybe, you know, died.

Kapoor, who was the founder and CEO of the company, is a billionaire who somehow managed to avoid arrest while 6 of his senior executives are already awaiting trial for bribing doctors in 6 states to do what Rosenberg did. Today they finally grabbed his evil ass and charged him with RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback law. How about murder, while we're at it?

Just keep in mind that the number 1 priority of the Republican party is to make sure that assholes like these guys don't have to pay taxes. Kapoor is worth $1.8 billion by the way. You know, he's a job creator. A maker, not a taker. 

2 comments:

Don Quixote said...

So many schtickdrecks, so little time!

Gay Boy Bob said...

We're a nation of laws and those who break the laws need to be prosecuted. On that we can agree.

I don't like Mr. Kapoor's associations and I agree that the optics are terrible, but I'm not not quite ready to make statements about his guilt or innocence. I'm going to defer that to the courts as I've done with President Trump and Hillary Clinton.

"Just keep in mind that the number 1 priority of the Republican party is to make sure that assholes like these guys don't have to pay taxes. Kapoor is worth $1.8

http://tinyurl.com/y8nfeu8d

OMB: Top 20% pay 95% of taxes, middle class 'single digits'

No thinking person should be surprised that *any* income tax cut will greatly affect mostly those who pay the lion's share of income taxes.