Chin To Serve Sentence in PA.

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Glen Chin, the former pharmacist convicted of racketeering and mail fraud, will be serving his eight year jail sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania.
Chin, 49, is due to report today to the federal prison in Allenwood, in the central part of the state,  about 130 miles away from the prison where co-defendant Barry J. Cadden is serving his nine year sentence.
Both were charged by a grand jury in Massachusetts following a two year federal probe of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak which took the lives of 76 patients. The two were also charged with 25 counts of second degree murder, but two separate juries cleared them of those charges.
Chin had originally requested to serve his sentence at a federal prison in Massachusetts but later asked for placement in Danbury, Conn. He lives in Canton, Mass., in the Boston suburbs.
Despite getting U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns to recommend the Connecticut placement, the federal Bureau of Prisons assigned Chin to the Allenwood facility. Cadden is  serving his sentence at Lorettto, PA.
Nine other defendants, including Chin's wife Kathy,  are scheduled to go on trial in September.