Ex-NECC Defendants Back to Pa.

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Two men facing second degree murder charges in Michigan are en route back to Pennsylvania to resume serving their prison sentences following their prior conviction on federal racketeering and mail fraud charges.
Glenn Chin, 50, and Barry Cadden, 52, were picked up by federal marshals Thursday night at the Livingston County jail. They were brought there to face second degree murder charges for their roles in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
The two are scheduled to return to Michigan in June for another hearing on the 11 counts of second degree murder brought late last year by the outgoing Michigan Attorney General David Schuette.
Kelly Rossman McKinney, a spokesman for current Attorney General Dana Nessel, said the two were picked up last night by federal marshals.
Chin will be returned to the federal prison in Allenwood, Penn., while Cadden will be going back to the federal prison in Loretto.
Penn. There had been speculation that the two would be sent to a federal prison in Michigan to avoid the cost of transporting them back and forth to Pennsylvania.
In a related development this week a federal judge in Boston, Mass. heard arguments on appeals filed by other NECC defendants who are appealing their convictions late last year.
A total of 14 persons connected to the now shuttered New England Compounding Center were indicted in late 2014 following a two year probe of the outbreak. The trial of the last two defendants is scheduled for April 29 in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass.