Had the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts settled for prosecuting Insys as a company, the investigation would have proceeded largely outside public view and ended in a plea bargain conducted in secret. In a brief hearing, lawyers for the company—and not the Insys executives themselves—would have stood up in court and pled guilty to an “information,” a dry document outlining the charges, and accepted significant financial penalties, stricter monitoring, and a deferred prosecution agreement, a form of corporate probation. Given the severity of the conduct, the company would have agreed to
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