Cadden, Chin to Stay In Michigan?

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

The exact whereabouts of two Massachusetts men charged with second degree murder in the wake of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak remains somewhat of a mystery with officials from the same Michigan agency giving contradictory accounts of their location.
According to one account he will remain in Michigan for upcoming hearings in the murder case brought by the Michigan Attorney General.
That was the information passed along today to Michigan victims of the outbreak and their survivors.
Barry J. Cadden and Glenn Chin were brought to Michigan late last month from federal prisons in Pennsylvania where they are serving sentences following their conviction on racketeering and mail fraud charges.
But another official of the same agency, the Michigan Attorney General, said the two were sent back to federal prisons in Pennsylvania yesterday.
The online inmate locator for the federal Bureau of Prisons states that Cadden and Chin are "Not currently in BOP custody."
According to the email sent to victims, the two will be housed in federal prisons in Michigan pending the upcoming hearings. A hearing has been set for June 11. They were initially kept at the Livingston County Prison for arraignment and other preliminary proceedings.
The information was passed along to Donna Borton by state officials. Borton was one of the victims to attend the pre-trial hearings.(See email below)
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Attorney General said late today that she would try to clarify the matter tomorrow.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company blamed for the outbreak. Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC in charge of the clean room where fungus riddled steroids were prepared.
Chin is serving an eight year sentence, while Cadden is serving a nine year sentence. They were convicted in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass., but cleared of second degree murder/racketeering charges.
They are charged in the deaths of 11 Michigan patients;Donna Kruzich, Paula Brent, Lyn Laperriere, Sally Roe, Mary Plettl, Gayle Gibson, Patricia Malafouris, Emma Todd, Jennie Barth, Ruth Madouse and Karine Baxter. The deaths of Madhouse, Malafouris and Barth were not included in the federal charges.
The two were cleared of 25 second degree murder racketeering charges in the federal cases.
In a related development today U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns heard arguments from prosecutors and a defense attorney on an appeal filed by another NECC defendant, Christopher Leary.
Leary and four other defendants were convicted late last year on racketeering and mail fraud charges.

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