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Pharmacist in deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak resentenced to 10-1/2 years in prison
Pharmacist in deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak resentenced to 10-1/2 years in prison
Nate Raymond
BOSTON, July 21 (Reuters) - An ex-pharmacist at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was resentenced on Wednesday to 10-1/2 years in prison after an appeals court tossed his earlier eight-year punishment.
Glenn Chin, the now-defunct New England Compounding Center's supervisory pharmacist, was sentenced for a second time by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston two weeks after co-founder Barry Cadden received a new prison term of 14-1/2 years. read more
Both men were separately convicted in 2017 of racketeering and fraud over misrepresentations to NECC customers about its drugs but were cleared of second-degree murder charges related to 25 patients' deaths.
Prosecutors said those deaths stemmed from a fungal meningitis outbreak traced back to mold-tainted steroids that Framingham, Massachusetts-based NECC produced in filthy and unsafe conditions and sold to hospitals and clinics nationally.
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Nate Raymond
BOSTON, July 21 (Reuters) - An ex-pharmacist at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was resentenced on Wednesday to 10-1/2 years in prison after an appeals court tossed his earlier eight-year punishment.
Glenn Chin, the now-defunct New England Compounding Center's supervisory pharmacist, was sentenced for a second time by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston two weeks after co-founder Barry Cadden received a new prison term of 14-1/2 years. read more
Both men were separately convicted in 2017 of racketeering and fraud over misrepresentations to NECC customers about its drugs but were cleared of second-degree murder charges related to 25 patients' deaths.
Prosecutors said those deaths stemmed from a fungal meningitis outbreak traced back to mold-tainted steroids that Framingham, Massachusetts-based NECC produced in filthy and unsafe conditions and sold to hospitals and clinics nationally.
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