Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Pharmacy officials face racketeering charges

BOSTON (AP) — A co-owner and a pharmacist at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy blamed for a 2012 deadly meningitis outbreak face charges of racketeering for allegedly causing the deaths of patients who received tainted steroids manufactured by the company, federal officials said Wednesday.
Barry Cadden, a co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, and Glenn Adam Chin, a pharmacist who was in charge of the sterile room, are accused in a federal indictment of ‘‘acting in wanton and willful disregard of the likelihood ‘‘ that their actions would cause death or great bodily harm, officials said.

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