Conigliaro Denied Scrap Metal License

By Walter F. Roche Jr,


The Framingham, Mass. city coucil has voted to deny a scrap metal dealers license to a company headed by one of the founders of a now defunct drug compounding company blamed for a deadly 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis.
The council voted earlier this week to deny a license to Conigliaro Industries headed by Gregory Conigliaro who is set to go on trial this Fall for his role at the New England Compounding Center, the firm blamed for the outbreak which killed 76 patients in 20 states. More than 700 other patients were sickened after injection with fungus riddled methylprednisolone acetate.
During this week's meeting council members cited Conigliaro's role at NECC where he was a vice president and part owner.
The denial marked the second time the panel turned down the request from Conigliaro. In 2015 a similar request was denied.
At a hearing earlier this year council members and residents expressed concerns about the recycling operation run by Conigliaro's company.
The scrap metal license would have allowed Conigliaro to buy and sell scrap metals.
Conigliaro was one of 14 persons connected to NECC to be indicted in December of 2014 following a two year federal probe of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
Two of the defendants, Barry J. Cadden and Glenn A. Chin already are serving prison sentences following their conviction by separate juries on racketeering, mail fraud and related charges. They were both cleared of second degree murder charges.
In addition to Conigliaro the defendants in the October trial include nine others charged in the 2014 indictment. All were either employees of NECC or related companies.
State licensing records show Conigliaro was granted a real estate sales license shortly before his indictment.
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