Chin Returned to PA Prison

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

A week after he was released from a Michigan jail and turned over to federal marshals, one of the key figures in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak has been returned to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to serve the remainder of his eight year sentence.
Records of the federal Bureau of Prisons show Glenn A. Chin, 50, was checked in today to the federal prison in Allenwood, PA. He had been confined at the Livingston County Prison in Michigan to face arraignment on second degree murder charges.
Chin and co-defendant Barry Cadden, 52, are scheduled to return to Michigan for another pre-trial hearing on June 11.
Cadden, who like Chin was convicted on federal racketeering and mail fraud charges, was returned to the federal prison in Loretto, PA. late last week. Cadden is serving a nine year federal prison sentence.
The two were charged late last year with second degree murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan victims of the outbreak.
Federal prosecutors had also charged the two with second degree murder-racketeering charges but two federal juries could not reach a unanimous verdict on those counts.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company that shipped fungus contaminated steroids which caused the deadly 2012 outbreak. Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the clean room where the deadly drugs were prepared.
There had been speculation that the two would be sent to a federal prison in Michigan pending the trial in that state, but that plan has apparently been put on hold.
In a related development federal officials have continued to gather assets from Cadden to meet a $7.5 million forfeiture order issued in federal court in Boston following his conviction. Funds gathered thus far by U.S. Marshals total more than $1 million.
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