By Walter F. Roche Jr.
One of the former pharmacists convicted of racketeering and related chargesnhas filed notice of a series of appeals including the recent addition of $3,312 to an $82 million restitution order.
The notice was filed today in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass. for Barry J. Cadden, who was president and part owner of a drug compounding firm that caused a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak.
In the same filing Cadden is disputing his 14.5 year federal jail sentence. The appeals go to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, which has already turned down other Cadden appeals.
The addition to the restitution order comes even though lawyers for Cadden had earlier stated he had no objections to the addition.
Government lawyers had sought the increase because the award to one of the outbreak victims had been inadvertently omitted from the $80.1 million claim.
The restitution was also impossed on co-defendant Glenn Chinn, who was a supervising pharmacist at the same Massachusetts compounding company as Cadden.
Both Cadden and Chin are currently being held at the Livingston County Jail in Michigan awaiting trial on charges of second degree murder in the deaths of 13 county residents who were victims of the 2012 deadly outbreak.
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