USA v. Cadden et al

  1. September 19, 2017

    Pharmacist Killed Patients By Shunning Safety, Jury Told

    Federal prosecutors told a jury in opening statements on Tuesday that a pharmacist's stupefying recklessness caused a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak and amounted to second-degree murder.

  2. July 18, 2017

    Feds May Appeal 9-Year Sentence In Meningitis Outbreak Case

    Federal prosecutors said in a filing Monday that they plan to challenge the nine-year sentence of a pharmacist who was convicted of racketeering and fraud related to a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak.

  3. July 18, 2017

    Ex-FDA Head's Comments May Put Meningitis Cases In Peril

    Three pharmacy employees accused of skirting federal regulations in the runup to a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak urged a Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday to dismiss charges against them, pointing to testimony by a former FDA commissioner they say shows a lack of clarity on how their business should be defined for regulatory purposes.

  4. June 26, 2017

    Pharmacist Gets 9 Years In Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

    A New England Compounding Center pharmacist convicted of racketeering for his role in a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 will serve nine years in prison, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday.

  5. June 23, 2017

    Feds Seek 35 Years For Pharmacist In Meningitis Outbreak

    Federal prosecutors told a Massachusetts federal judge that a pharmacist convicted of racketeering for his role in the deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak deserves to be jailed for 35 years, a sentence the government says is merited by the enormous human devastation that he left in his wake.

  6. June 22, 2017

    Judge Denies Acquittal Bid In Meningitis Outbreak Case

    A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday declined to toss the racketeering and mail fraud convictions of a pharmacist whose company, the New England Compounding Center, was linked to the deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak.

  7. June 21, 2017

    News Outlet Presses Judge For Meningitis Juror Names

    A Massachusetts federal judge is waiting too long to release the names of jurors in the first meningitis outbreak case to go to trial, a news outlet said Wednesday.

  8. June 21, 2017

    Convicted Pharmacist, Feds Fight Over Sentencing Range

    Federal prosecutors and a pharmacist convicted of racketeering and fraud for his role in selling drugs that caused the 2012 meningitis outbreak continued to spar this week over the amount of money that should count against him for sentencing. 

  9. June 16, 2017

    Jurors With Strange Verdict In Meningitis Case To Be ID'ed

    A federal judge in Massachusetts said Friday he will release the names of jurors who convicted a pharmacist of fraud and acquitted him of murder — and indicated, with an unusual series of numbers, how they were voting.

  10. June 15, 2017

    Pharmacist Says Feds' Misconduct Taints Meningitis Case

    Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the Massachusetts pharmacist convicted of racketeering in the 2012 meningitis outbreak traded increasingly personal barbs Thursday as the defendant, pointing to what he sees as government misconduct, asked a judge to toss the case or give him a new trial.