A big pharma billionaire finally got “got”

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sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module footer" role="module" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding: 10px 0px"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding: 0 5px" width="100%"> <tbody><!-- START DYNAMIC CONTENT --><br /><!-- START HEADER --></p> <tr role="module-content"> <td align="center" class="templateColumnContainer" valign="top" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr id="intro"> <td colspan="2" style="color: #000000;font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace;font-size: 18px;letter-spacing: -1px;line-height: 120%;padding: 20px 0">The DOJ just arrested the founder of Insys for paying off docs to prescribe highly addictive opiates.</td> </tr> <tr style="vertical-align: bottom"> <td class="leftColumnContent" role="column-one" style="height: 100%;padding-top: 20px"><a href="http://thehustle.co/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top%20logo" style="color: #000000;font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace;font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 100%;text-decoration: none">The Hustle</a></td> <td class="rightColumnContent" role="column-two" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;height: 100%;line-height: 18px;text-align: right" align="right">Fri, Oct 27</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module" role="module" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" role="module-content" style="padding-top: 10px" valign="top"> <a href="http://upsd.io/2yT70YO" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/10.27_insys_20171026230733.jpg" style="height: auto;width: 100%" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-family: 'Courier New',sans-serif;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;padding-top: 10px">Brought to you by <a href="http://upsd.io/2yT70YO" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">Upside</a>… because business travel doesn’t have to suck.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END HEADER --></p> <p> <!-- START SHARE ME NOW BRIEF --></p> <tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>Billionaire big pharma founder arrested for bribing doctors to prescribe fentanyl</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Yesterday, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-owner-pharmaceutical-company-insys-arrested-and-charged-racketeering" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">US Department of Justice arrested</a> 6 former execs and managers of pharmaceutical giant Insys, for “paying doctors to needlessly prescribe an extremely dangerous and addictive form of fentanyl” — a drug only recommended for extreme pain in cancer patients.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Among those arrested was John Kapoor, the company’s 74-year-old founder worth $2.1B, who stepped down as CEO back in January but remains Insys’ majority shareholder.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Apparently, he’s also a major player in the US opioid epidemic</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Subsys, Insys’ brand-name fentanyl spray, is the fastest-acting form of the product, and “<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/10/04/death-kickbacks-and-a-billionaire-the-story-of-a-dangerous-opioid/#5ad15a8b6e3f" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">80 times more potent than morphine</a>,” and Insys has been making a killing on it. </p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">The company’s stock rose 296% in the 3 years after their 2013 IPO. But the number of fentanyl overdoses in the US spiked 540% in that same timeframe — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/02/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">accounting for over 20k deaths</a> in 2016.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">And, according to the federal indictment, Insys has stopped at nothing to prescribe it to as many patients as possible. </p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Including bribing doctors to promote and prescribe fentanyl</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">The indictment alleges that Insys was able to cover up its bribes paying doctors “speaker fees” to appear at promotional events for Subsys.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Former CEO Michael Babich is said to have tracked doctors’ “return on investment,” based on how much they were paid, how many prescriptions they wrote, and how much money Insys made off them.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">According to the DOJ, Kapoor and his cohort also “conspired to mislead and defraud health insurance providers who were reluctant to approve payment for [Subsys].”</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Charges against the execs include racketeering, wire fraud, and mail fraud — each with penalties of up to 25 years in prison.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>FINALLY, these guys are getting caught</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Sadly, execs of big pharma companies, while often accused of fueling the opioid crisis, rarely see punishment.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">As for Kapoor? In his mind, Subsys is just a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/10/04/death-kickbacks-and-a-billionaire-the-story-of-a-dangerous-opioid/#5ad15a8b6e3f" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">“small part” of the problem</a> — Insys says super-potent fentanyl is “only” prescribed 130k times a year, and according to his lawyer, he “<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-insys-founder-charged-u-161046664.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">intends to fight these charges </a>vigorously.”</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START SHARING --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace;font-size: 26px;line-height: 120%;padding: 15px 0;text-align: center" align="center">Hurts, doesn’t it?</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table style="text-align: center;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a href="" style="color: #ed4d1f;padding: 0 8px;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/share_fb-4.jpg" /></a></td> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&summary=The+DOJ+just+arrested+the+founder+of+big+pharma+co.+Insys+for+paying+docs+to+prescribe+fentanyl&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2Finsys-founder-arrested-for-bribing-doctors-fentanyl%3Futm_source%3Ddaily%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D10%252F26%2520-%2520Overstock%26utm_content%3Dinsys-founder-arrested-for-bribing-doctors-fentanyl" style="color: #ed4d1f;padding: 0 8px;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/share_li-4.jpg" /></a></td> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a 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15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">While their quarterly revenue was still <a href="https://qz.com/1112669/twitter-twtr-could-be-profitable-in-q4-2017/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">down 4% from last year</a>, they managed to cushion their losses with an $87m uptick in data licensing revenue — cutting their Q3 losses to only $21m.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">In other words… they might have a profitable Q4. <em>*GASP*</em></p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>How’d they do it?</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Despite recently admitting to inadvertently <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/10/26/twitter-overcounted-active-users-since-2014-shares-surge/801968001/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">overcounting their active users </a>since 2014, they <em>did</em> add 4m users in Q3, putting their correct total to 330m monthly users, which is huge.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">And aside from growing their audience, the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey credited their progress to signing a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-it-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-surge-idUSKBN1CV1JP?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">“significant number”</a> of enterprise deals and achieving record profitability ($0.10 earnings per share — nearly double analysts’ predictions).</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>So what do they have to do to finally have a profitable quarter?</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">After cutting expenses and loading up on deals to sell its data to outside companies, Twitter’s says their next move is to lower their dependence on ad revenue.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">And, as long as they keep exceeding their investor’s (fairly moderate) expectations like they did in Q3, they should be well on their way.</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="padding: 10px 0"> <table class="emailshare" style="border-spacing: 0;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background: #000000;border: 2px solid #000000;height: 21px;padding: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;width: 21px" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle"><span style="float: none;text-align: center"><a href="http://thehustle.co/twitter-profitable-quarter?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10%2F26%20-%20Overstock&utm_content=twitter-profitable-quarter" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" height="12" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sharelinkbutton-6.png" style="height: 12px;width: 12px" width="12" /></a></span></td> <td style="padding: 0;vertical-align: top" valign="top"> <table class="fbshare" style="border-spacing: 0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-color: #000;border-style: solid;border-width: 2px 2px 2px 0;padding: 0 8px;vertical-align: middle" valign="middle"><a href="http://thehustle.co/twitter-profitable-quarter?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10%2F26%20-%20Overstock&utm_content=twitter-profitable-quarter" style="color: #000000;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 21px;text-decoration: none">Sure you got those numbers right?</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="break1" style="border-bottom-color: #dddddd;border-bottom-style: solid;border-bottom-width: 1px;height: 30px"> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END BRIEF --></p> <p> <!-- START BRIEF --></p> <tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>Severely understaffed, The National Weather Service is feeling the heat</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">In the midst of a tumultuous 2017 that has seen <a href="http://www.whec.com/news/weather-disasters-pricetag-united-states-cost/4538503/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">$16B worth</a> of natural disasters, the nation’s chief <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.2a540ea56b08" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">weather agency</a>, the National Weather Service, is “teetering on the brink of failure.”</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">According to the <em>Washington Post</em>, the federal agency responsible for providing forecasts and warning of dangerous weather is facing severe understaffing issues that are threatening to compromise its coverage.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Cloudy, with a chance of overtime</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Over the past 2 years, the agency has seen a <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/US/national-weather-service-jobs/2017/10/26/id/822341/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">57% increase</a> in staff vacancies — and for current NWS workers, life’s not great right now.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">“Some people have been denied vacations, because there are not enough bodies to fill shifts,” one employee told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.2a540ea56b08" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><em>Post</em></a>. “I, myself, worked a 15-hour day about a week ago. You get a lot less sleep. You start to wonder if you’re safe on the road. You don’t see your loved ones…”</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Yikes. What’s up?</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">In recent years, the NWS staff has been crimped by numerous hiring freezes, administration changes, and budget limitations.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">In 2012, the agency was so desperate for funding that they shifted around money internally without the approval of Congress, leading to a widely-covered <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/us/noaa-contracts/index.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">payroll scandal</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">And all of this is starting to take a toll on the weather information we’re receiving: unless things change, they’ll have to start cutting corners on their reporting to compensate.</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="padding: 10px 0"> <table class="emailshare" style="border-spacing: 0;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background: #000000;border: 2px solid #000000;height: 21px;padding: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;width: 21px" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle"><span style="float: none;text-align: center"><a href="http://thehustle.co/the-national-weather-service-on-brink-of-failure?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10%2F26%20-%20Overstock&utm_content=the-national-weather-service-on-brink-of-failure" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" height="12" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sharelinkbutton-7.png" style="height: 12px;width: 12px" width="12" /></a></span></td> <td style="padding: 0;vertical-align: top" valign="top"> <table class="fbshare" style="border-spacing: 0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-color: #000;border-style: solid;border-width: 2px 2px 2px 0;padding: 0 8px;vertical-align: middle" valign="middle"><a href="http://thehustle.co/the-national-weather-service-on-brink-of-failure?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10%2F26%20-%20Overstock&utm_content=the-national-weather-service-on-brink-of-failure" style="color: #000000;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 21px;text-decoration: none">Riders on the storm</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="break1" style="border-bottom-color: #dddddd;border-bottom-style: solid;border-bottom-width: 1px;height: 30px"> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END BRIEF --></p> <p> <!-- START BRIEF --></p> <tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>The art of naming a company in China — so people don’t think it’s a brothel</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Earlier this year, McDonald’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/mcdonald-s-sells-control-of-china-business-to-citic-carlyle" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">sold</a> control of its 2.5k Chinese locations to a state-run conglomerate for $2B.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Now, the fast food chain has officially <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/26/news/companies/mcdonalds-china-name-change/index.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">changed its Chinese business name</a> from <em>Maidanglao</em> (a literal translation of “McDonald’s”) to <em>Jingongmen</em> — or, “Golden Arches.”</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">A seemingly simple change, but as it turns out, renaming a giant foreign company in China is a complex and nuanced art form.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Tricky business</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">In China, some Western words have dramatically different meanings when directly translated. Even when a brand translates appropriately, it may prove difficult to pronounce in Mandarin or Cantonese, and selecting the right name is a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/world/asia/picking-brand-names-in-china-is-a-business-itself.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">whole business</a> in itself.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">As a result, some brands opt for more simple and literal names that latch positive connotations to their products — which has led to some rather unusual product names… </p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Like Coca-Cola’s Chinese rebrand to </strong><em><strong>Ke kou ke le</strong></em></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Or, in English, “<a 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