# A Tale of Two Fraudsters: John Kapoor and The Sacklers

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Podcast: [Fraudsters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fraudsters-4890149)
Published: 2024-12-03T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

It’s the season finale of Fraudsters, and we’re reluctantly exploring the grim origins of America’s opioid crisis. From the Sackler family’s OxyContin empire, built on shameless marketing, fake science, and philanthropy-as-image-laundering, to John Kapoor’s Insys Pharmaceuticals, a scrappy underdog peddling fentanyl sprays, we unravel the fraud that fueled this epidemic. With half a million deaths, shattered communities, and contrasting fates for these corporate villains, it’s a class war in a pill bottle. Who paid the price—and who walked free?

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