$611,774 Forfeiture Order Sought on Chin.

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to issue a $611,774 forfeiture order against, Glenn Chin, the pharmacist convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud for his role in deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
In a nine-page motion filed this week in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass. the prosecutors said the $611,774 represented the traceable wages paid to Chin from 2006 to October of 2012, when the New England Compounding Center, Chin's employer, was forced to shutdown.
According to an affidavit filed along with the motion the figure does not include any income for 2008 and 2009, because records for those years could not be located.
Chin was convicted in October of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 31.
Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC, the Framingham, Mass. company blamed for the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. He was the supervisor in the clean room where steroids laden with a deadly fungus were produced and shipped all over the country.
Chin's earnings were not made public during his 27-day trial. In contrast earnings and profits netted by co-defendant Barry J. Cadden were detailed during his trial which preceded Chin's. Cadden, the president and part owner of NECC has been hit with a $7.5 million forfeiture order and already is serving an 11 year prison sentence following his March conviction on parallel charges.
A government  witness testified at Cadden's trial that he and his wife earned $18 million in profits between 1998 and 2012.
Both Chin and Cadden were cleared by separate juries of 25 counts of second degree murder.
According to the motion and affidavit filed this week, federal investigators were unable to locate the $611,774 because Chin apparently used the wages to pay ongoing living expenses.
Chin, Cadden and a dozen others were indicted in December of 2014 following a two year probe of the fungal meningitis outbreak which sickened 778 patients, killing 76 of them.
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