Wednesday, January 17, 2018
$611,774 Forfeiture Order Sought on Chin.
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to issue a $611,774 forfeiture order against, Glenn Chin, the pharmacist convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud for his role in deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
In a nine-page motion filed this week in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass. the prosecutors said the $611,774 represented the traceable wages paid to Chin from 2006 to October of 2012, when the New England Compounding Center, Chin's employer, was forced to shutdown.
According to an affidavit filed along with the motion the figure does not include any income for 2008 and 2009, because records for those years could not be located.
Chin was convicted in October of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 31.
Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC, the Framingham, Mass. company blamed for the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. He was the supervisor in the clean room where steroids laden with a deadly fungus were produced and shipped all over the country.
Chin's earnings were not made public during his 27-day trial. In contrast earnings and profits netted by co-defendant Barry J. Cadden were detailed during his trial which preceded Chin's. Cadden, the president and part owner of NECC has been hit with a $7.5 million forfeiture order and already is serving an 11 year prison sentence following his March conviction on parallel charges.
A government witness testified at Cadden's trial that he and his wife earned $18 million in profits between 1998 and 2012.
Both Chin and Cadden were cleared by separate juries of 25 counts of second degree murder.
According to the motion and affidavit filed this week, federal investigators were unable to locate the $611,774 because Chin apparently used the wages to pay ongoing living expenses.
Chin, Cadden and a dozen others were indicted in December of 2014 following a two year probe of the fungal meningitis outbreak which sickened 778 patients, killing 76 of them.
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I constantly rerun: why, why risk your job, someones life, your freedom, someone’s life.
ReplyDeleteThose where really good jobs, good cause of doing things half assed. I don’t know but why. Before I was ruined by the injection, I was getting so I could work. I was skilled labor, highly trained in my field. I never made more then 90k but I had to work 80 hours a week. Why what’s wrong with us. The city knew, the state knew, most if not all the employees knew, knew what, that the place was dirty, and they.... never mind I am starting to go off task. Enough agency’s, people, enough documents to close bldg most places. Why
Yes hard to grasp. I to was skilled labor. Union heavy equipment operator. Now can only drive certain times.
ReplyDeleteThe state should also be held liable
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