- A former Massachusetts pharmacy owner was sentenced Friday to at least 10 years in prison.
- Barry Cadden, former director of New England Pharmacy Center, was sentenced in Howell, Michigan.
- Cadden’s sentence was related to his role in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from tainted drugs.
A former Massachusetts pharmacy owner who used a drug contaminated with the mold that caused a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States in 2012 was implicated in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents on Friday. He was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.
Barry Cadden, former director of the New England Compounding Center (NECC), was found guilty in March of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of 11 people by Judge Matthew McGivney in Howell, Michigan. .
The 10- to 15-year prison sentence will run concurrently with a 14-and-a-half-year federal sentence already imposed by Cadden, 57, who was convicted in 2017 of racketeering and fraud charges related to false statements to NECC. It will be executed. Ask the customer about the drug.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston also convicted Cadden of second-degree murder in the deaths of 25 people across the country caused by mold-tainted steroids made by Framingham, Mass.-based NECC. I was about to put it down. A jury acquitted Cadden of these charges.
Barry Cadden, a pharmacist and co-founder of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center, is seen on June 26, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. Cadden was sentenced Friday to at least 10 years in prison for his role in the deaths of 11 people. Resident of Michigan. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File photo)
Michigan’s attorney general then filed charges in state court against Cadden and former NECC supervising pharmacist Glenn Chin, who, like Cadden, was convicted of federal fraud charges but acquitted at trial of second-degree murder. became.
“The families of these 11 victims will forever bear the weight of Mr. Cadden’s greed and disregard for basic standards that led to this terrible tragedy,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement. ” he said.
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Prosecutors alleged that NECC manufactured drugs in unclean and dangerous conditions and sold them to hospitals and clinics across the country. The outbreak sickened 793 people, of whom more than 100 died, according to federal prosecutors.
His lawyer, Gerald Gleeson, said Cadden’s sentence on Friday was proof that he had already been in custody for more than six-and-a-half years. He made no further comment.
Charges against Mr. Chin are still pending in Michigan, where he has pleaded not guilty and is serving a 10-and-a-half year federal sentence.
