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Billionaire founder of drug company arrested for alleged opioid scheme

Federal authorities arrested John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics, in Arizona on Thursday. His company is at the center of an alleged opioid kickback scheme in which doctors were bribed to prescribe a cancer painkiller to non-cancer patients. Jim Axelrod reports.
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