|
Barry Cadden, the former president of New England Compounding
Center (NECC), was sentenced by Judge Matthew McGivney in
Howell, Michigan, after pleading no contest in March to
involuntary manslaughter charges related to the 11 deaths.
The 10- to 15-year sentence will run concurrently with an
already-imposed 14-1/2 year federal prison term that Cadden, 57,
is serving after he was convicted in 2017 on racketeering and
fraud charges related to misrepresentations he made to NECC
customers about its drugs.
Federal prosecutors in Boston had also sought to convict Cadden
of second-degree murder over 25 deaths nationally caused by
mold-tainted steroids that Framingham, Massachusetts-based NECC
produced. Jurors acquitted Cadden of those charges.
Michigan's attorney general subsequently brought charges in
state court against Cadden and Glenn Chin, NECC's former
supervisory pharmacist, who like Cadden was convicted of federal
fraud charges but cleared at trial of second-degree murder.
"The families of these 11 victims will forever bear the weight
of Mr. Cadden's greed and disregard for basic standards that
caused this horrific tragedy," Michigan Attorney General Dana
Nessel said in a statement.
Prosecutors said NECC produced the drugs in filthy and unsafe
conditions and sold them to hospitals and clinics nationally.
The outbreak sickened 793 patients, more than 100 of whom have
died, federal prosecutors have said.
Cadden's sentence on Friday credited him for the more than 6-1/2
years he has already spent in custody, according to his lawyer,
Gerald Gleeson. He had no further comment.
Charges in Michigan remain pending against Chin, who has pleaded
not guilty and is serving a 10-1/2 year federal sentence.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
[© 2024 Thomson Reuters. All
rights reserved.]
Copyright 2022 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.
|
|
