NECC Jurors Still Deliberating

Boston- Jurors hearing the racketeering case against former employees of a drug compounding firm completed another full day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict.
The 12 jurors left the federal courthouse at 4 p.m. They began deliberations last Wednesday. The current deliberations have now surpassed the time taken by jurors in the case of co-defendant Barry J. Cadden, whose case also included 25 racketeering charges of second degree murder. He was cleared of the murder charges but convicted on racketeering and mail fraud charges
On trial are six former employees of the New England Compounding Center. The Framingham company shut down for good in the Fall of 2012 even as hundreds of patients were suffering fungal meningitis and other illnesses caused by contaminated steroids from NECC.
The jurors began deliberations last week after closing arguments and instructions from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns. The six face charges including racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic. The six and eight others were indicted in late 2014 following a two year probe of the outbreak which took the lives of 76 patients.
Two of the 14. including Cadden, already are serving prison terms. Two others have yet to be tried. Still two more have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
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