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John N. Kapoor, the one-time billionaire founder of an Arizona drug company, was convicted Thursday of federal racketeering conspiracy for bribing doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients who shouldn’t have gotten it.

On the 15th day of deliberations, a US District Court jury in Boston found that Kapoor and four former executives of Insys Therapeutics engaged in a nationwide conspiracy to pay off doctors at pain clinics to prescribe Subsys, an under-the-tongue fentanyl spray approved in 2012 for cancer pain.

www.BostonGlobe.com.