By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The former vice president and part owner of a defunct drug compounding firm has filed yet another appeal for a new trial contending he was unduly prejudiced in the original trial.
The lawyer for Gregory Conigliaro, the former vice president of the New England Compounding Center, charged today that federal prosecutors repeatedly defied rulings by the presiding judge and presented evidence or comments about Conigliaro's involvement in a recycling business located next to the NECC, the company blamed for the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
Conigliaro, part owner of NECC, was convicted of a single count of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is now asking for a new trial on that charges.
Daniel Rabinowitz, Conigliaro's lawyer, said in a 16-page filing, that the references to the recycling busines, known as Conigliaro Industries, violated U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns order 10 times.
Rabinowitz said the U.S. Attorney's office also violated Stearns decision that prosecutors could not present evidence of Conigliaro's profits from NECC unless support was presented justifying the use of that evidence beforehand.
Those and other actions by prosecutors, Rabinowitz said, supported the motion for Conigliaro to get a new trial.
In a related action, the lawyer for co-defendant and star prosecution witness Robert Ronzio, asked the court to order that his passport be returned. Earlier this week Stearns ruled that Ronzio need not serve any prison time following his conviction on the same conspiracy charge.
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