USA v. Cadden et al

  1. February 17, 2017

    Pharmacist Rebuts Key Testimony In Meningitis Murder Trial

    A defense attorney for a pharmacist accused of murder and health care fraud in the 2012 meningitis outbreak meticulously scrutinized testimony by the pharmacy's quality control officer during cross-examination on Friday, suggesting inconsistencies about issues she brought to her boss and exaggerations about mold findings.

  2. February 16, 2017

    Bugs And Hair Plagued Meningitis-Linked Pharmacy, Jury Told

    The Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis was plagued with bugs, human hair and the chief pharmacist's indifference to the problems, the company's former quality control officer told a jury on Thursday during her former boss's murder trial.

  3. February 15, 2017

    Meningitis-Linked Drugmaker Was On States' Radar, Jury Told

    The Massachusetts compounding center whose chief pharmacist is on trial for murder came under regulatory scrutiny even before a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people, a state investigator testified Wednesday in Boston federal court.

  4. February 06, 2017

    Deadly Drugs Shipped Before Test Results Came In, Jury Told

    A pharmacy technician at the Massachusetts company linked to a meningitis outbreak used old, incorrect labels on a batch of steroids — later found to contain deadly mold — and shipped them out to customers before final test results were available, he told a federal jury Monday in Massachusetts.

  5. January 20, 2017

    Head Of Meningitis-Linked Pharmacy Called Regulators Inept

    The head of a compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs killed dozens of people in 2012 bragged in training videos about state regulators who didn't have a clue about the company's business, according to exhibits entered into evidence Thursday in the man's murder trial.

  6. January 18, 2017

    Widow Tells Jury Of Husband's Death From Tainted Steroids

    The widow of a man who was injected with tainted steroids described her husband's death to a federal jury in Boston on Wednesday, for the first time giving voice to the human agony behind a pharmacist's murder trial and the most devastating pharmaceutical disaster in American history.

  7. January 13, 2017

    Pharmacy That Sold Deadly Drugs Touted Safety, Jury Told

    A former sales representative at a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to the deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak testified Friday he was trained to tell prospective customers the company was fastidious about ensuring patient safety as he took the stand in the murder trial of the firm's former chief.

  8. January 11, 2017

    Meningitis-Linked Pharmacy Used Fake Names, Jury Told

    A Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak had a history of filling orders for drugs with blatantly fake patient names like Pepe Le Pew, Pee-wee Herman and Donald Trump, a federal investigator testified Wednesday during the murder trial of the company's head pharmacist.

  9. January 10, 2017

    Pharmacist Denied Problems Amid Meningitis Probe, Jury Told

    The head of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy had told a Centers for Disease Control official investigating the start of a meningitis outbreak that the company had no issues with testing or sterilization, the official testified this week before a federal jury.

  10. January 09, 2017

    Meningitis Outbreak Was Murder, Feds Tell Jury

    The head of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy committed murder when his company shipped vials of mold-contaminated steroid injections around the country, federal prosecutors told a jury in Boston on Monday.