Tag: were-charged
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California county settles with family of killed inmate for $3.6 million
A county in the San Francisco Bay area has reached a $3.6 million settlement with the family of a mentally ill inmate who authorities said was beaten to death by jail guards last year, attorneys and county officials said on Friday. The $3.625 million will go to the young daughter, two sisters and estate of…
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Ex-Insys executives arrested for bribing U.S. doctors to prescribe painkiller
Michael Babich, the Arizona-based drugmaker’s former chief executive officer, and others were charged with participating in a conspiracy in which bribes were disguised as marketing event and speaker fees. The case is the latest involving Subsys, a spray approved for managing pain in cancer patients that contains the synthetic opioid fentanyl, as authorities try to…