Cadden, Chin Due In Michigan for Arraignment

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

The two officials of a defunct drug compounding company already serving jail terms for their roles in a deadly 2012 outbreak are headed to Michigan this week where they will be arraigned on 11 counts of second degree murder.
Cadden was expected to arrive at the Livingston County Jail Thursday while Chin is due to arrive a day later, according to Kelly Rossman-McKinney, spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel
Chin was en route from the federal prison in Allenwood and Cadden will be traveling from the federal prison in Loretto. Both prisons are in Pennsylvania.
Their arraignments are scheduled for March 1 at 8:30 a.m.
The two were charged late last year by then outgoing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, following a lengthy probe of the outbreak which took the lives of more than 100 patients. At least 19 Michigan patients died including the 11 cited in the second degree murder charges.
Chin and Cadden were convicted of racketeering and mail fraud charges in separate trials in federal court in Boston, Mass. Cadden was given a nine year sentence, while Chin is serving an eight year term.
Both Cadden and Chin were cleared of second degree murder/racketeering charges during their separate federal jury trials.
In the upcoming Michigan case they were charged in the deaths of Donna Kruzich, Paula Brent, Lyn Laperriere, Sally Roe, Mary Plettl, Gayle Gibson, Patricia Malafouris, Emma Todd, Jennie Barth, Ruth Madouse and Karina Baxter. Malafouris, Barth and Madoose were not included in the federal murder charges.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company that shipped thousands of contaminated vials of a spinal steroid to health providers across the country. Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC and was in charge of the clean room where the fungus laden drugs were prepared.
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