Cadden Returned to PA Prison

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

One of the two former pharmacists accused of 11 counts of second degree murder has been returned to a federal prison in Pennsylvania where he is serving a nine year sentence following his conviction on racketeering and mail fraud charges.
Barry J. Cadden, 52, has returned to the federal prison in Loretto, PA., following his arraignment in Livingston County Michigan on the second degree murder charges.
Co-defendant Glenn Chin is apparently still en route from Michigan to the federal prison in Loretto, PA. He is serving an eight year sentence on racketeering and mail fraud charges.
Both were associated with the New England Compounding Center, the now shuttered Massachusetts drug compounding company that shipped thousands of vials of fungus riddled steroids to dozens of health facilities across the country. The company has been blamed for a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that took the lives of more than 100 patients.
Chin and Cadden are scheduled to return to Michigan for a June 11 hearing on the murder charges.
The second degree murder charges were filed in late 2018 by outgoing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.
Cadden, 52, and Chin, 50, were charged with 25 counts of second degree racketeering murder charges by a federal grand jury, but two separate federal juries were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on those charges.
Cadden was the pharmacist in charge and part owner of NECC. Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the clean room where the fungus tainted steroids were prepared.
The two were housed at the Livingston County Jail during the arraignment and related Michigan roceedings. Officials at the county facility said last week that Cadden and Chin were released in the custody of a private transport company on contract to the federal government for transport to their federal prisons in Pennsylvania.
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