USA v. Cadden et al

  1. December 13, 2022

    Lab Director Gets 5 Months For Duping FDA Before Outbreak

    The former operations director of the Massachusetts lab responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

  2. December 08, 2022

    Lab Exec Seeks Probation For FDA Fraud Tied To Outbreak

    The former operations director of the lab that sparked a deadly meningitis outbreak argued Thursday that her conviction for defrauding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warrants only probation, while prosecutors asked for nine months in prison.

  3. December 01, 2022

    Lab Exec Gets 1 Year For FDA Fraud Tied To Deadly Outbreak

    A federal judge Thursday sentenced the co-owner of a defunct Massachusetts compounding center responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak to a year in prison after a prosecutor blasted the executive for fraud that enabled the tragedy.

  4. November 28, 2022

    Feds Seek Prison For Exec's FDA Fraud After 1st Circ. Flip

    Federal prosecutors want an executive at a defunct lab tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak to spend 18 months in prison after the First Circuit reinstated his conviction for concealing pharmaceutical manufacturing as the former executive pushed for probation.

  5. February 09, 2022

    Cooperator In Meningitis Outbreak Case Gets Time Served

    The first defendant to plead guilty in the case of a Massachusetts drugmaker responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 has been sentenced to time served after the government credited him with providing "substantial assistance" in several prosecutions.

  6. February 04, 2022

    Ex-NECC Execs Seek New Trial After Revived Convictions

    Two former executives at the now-defunct New England Compounding Center renewed their requests for a new trial Thursday, after the First Circuit reinstated the pair's convictions for concealing pharmaceutical manufacturing activities from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

  7. July 21, 2021

    Pharmacist Gets More Prison In Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

    The Massachusetts pharmacist who fueled a deadly meningitis outbreak with contaminated drugs must serve two and a half more years in prison on top of his initial eight-year term, a federal judge said Wednesday after the First Circuit directed him to reconsider a harsher sentence.

  8. July 07, 2021

    Pharmacist Linked To Deadly Outbreak Gets Extra 5 Years

    The founder of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak saw his prison term increased from nine years to more than 14 years on Wednesday, after the First Circuit said the sentencing judge could consider a harsher punishment.

  9. June 03, 2021

    Pharmacist Says 8 Years Enough For Lab Outbreak Scandal

    The lead pharmacist for the defunct Massachusetts lab at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak said Wednesday that a First Circuit ruling shouldn't allow prosecutors to seek to more than double his current eight-year prison term.

  10. May 03, 2021

    Feds Want Harsher Prison Terms In Meningitis Outbreak Case

    Two executives of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak should each spend more than 17 years behind bars and pay $82 million in restitution, federal prosecutors said Friday after a First Circuit ruling paved the way for a new sentencing.