USA v. Cadden et al

  1. September 24, 2018

    Prosecutors Can Tell 3rd NECC Jury About Meningitis Pain

    Low-level pharmacists at the shuttered New England Compounding Center whose bosses have been convicted of causing a drug contamination that gave patients meningitis cannot preclude prosecutors from telling jurors next month about the horrendous pain caused by their supervisors, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday.

  2. May 09, 2018

    Ex-Pharmacist Denied Meningitis Acquittal Bid Amid Appeal

    A Massachusetts federal court reiterated Wednesday that a pharmacist convicted of 77 counts for manufacturing deadly drugs in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak cannot pursue an acquittal bid while simultaneously appealing the verdict.

  3. April 30, 2018

    Ex-NECC Employees Don't Want Jury To Hear Of Drug Harms

    New England Compounding Center pharmacists and other former employees facing mail fraud charges as a result of the infamous 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday that the jury at their upcoming trial should not hear about the harm caused by the center's tainted drugs, arguing it would lead the panel to act on emotion.

  4. March 21, 2018

    Meningitis Pharmacist's Direct Victims Were Providers: Judge

    A former New England Compounding Center pharmacist convicted of racketeering only has to provide restitution to hospitals and doctors that purchased his contaminated drugs, not patients and other victims of a subsequent meningitis outbreak, a Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday.

  5. February 23, 2018

    Meningitis Pharmacist Must Forfeit $175K Before Restitution

    A former Massachusetts pharmacist convicted of recklessly mixing drugs that led to a 2012 meningitis outbreak must forfeit $175,000, or less than one-half of his salary from the roughly three years a jury decided his laboratory degenerated into a criminal enterprise, a federal judge decided on Friday.

  6. February 13, 2018

    Meningitis Pharmacist Tells Court Restitution Is Too Much

    The pharmacist who oversaw a sloppy drug compounding operation that churned out moldy steroid injections and led to a fatal meningitis outbreak said Monday that he shouldn't have to forfeit his entire six-year salary of $611,000 now that he has been sentenced to eight years of prison.

  7. January 31, 2018

    Pharmacist Gets 8 Years For Making Meningitis-Linked Drugs

    The second pharmacist convicted of racketeering and fraud that led to a deadly meningitis outbreak will spend eight years in prison — one year less than his boss, a federal judge in Massachusetts decided Wednesday.

  8. January 29, 2018

    Pharmacist Should Pay Meningitis Victims $82M, Gov't Says

    The United States urged a Massachusetts federal judge Friday to order a former New England Compounding Center pharmacist to pay $82 million in restitution to victims of a 2012 deadly meningitis outbreak tied to the pharmacy.

  9. January 12, 2018

    1st Circ. Sends 3 More Meningitis Pharmacists To Trial

    The First Circuit on Friday decided federal prosecutors can move forward with charges against three former pharmacists who allegedly prescribed drugs to "Wonder Woman," "Chester Cheeto," "Filet O'fish" and other fake patients from a Massachusetts compounding facility linked to a fatal meningitis outbreak.

  10. December 14, 2017

    Meningitis Fraudster Says Feds' Push For $133M Must Wait

    A pharmacist convicted of fraud for selling deadly drugs in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak urged a Massachusetts federal court Wednesday to uphold its decision not to award the federal government $132.8 million in restitution while he appeals his case to the First Circuit.