Pharmacist guilty of fraud, not murder, in U.S. meningitis outbreak
Source: Reuters
The co-founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts compounding pharmacy was found guilty of racketeering and fraud but cleared of murder on Wednesday for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people across the United States.
Barry Cadden, who was a co-owner and president of New England Compounding Center, was convicted by a federal jury in Boston after a two-month trial centered on an outbreak linked to the company's drug that sickened 753 people in 20 states.
The outbreak was the largest U.S. public health crisis involving a pharmaceutical drug. It led to new regulations on compounding pharmacies, which mix drugs but had been treated with a lighter hand than registered drug manufacturers.
Cadden, 50, was convicted on 52 counts of mail fraud and five other counts, including racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, and found not guilty of 39 other charges.
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U.S. | Wed Mar 22, 2017 | 3:00pm EDT
By Nate Raymond | BOSTON
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