BOSTON (AP) – The Latest on the sentencing for a pharmacy co-founder convicted in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak (all times local):
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A Massachusetts prosecutor has told a judge that a compounding pharmacy that caused the deaths of 76 people through contaminated medical steroids was “a massive reckless and fraudulent organization.”
The description came during a sentencing hearing for 50-year-old Barry Cadden, the co-founder of the New England Compounding Center. Prosecutors say Cadden ran the center in a dangerous way by skirting industry regulations on sterility in an effort to push production and make more money.
Cadden was acquitted of second-degree murder charges under federal racketeering law, but convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges.