NECC RX Begins Jail Term

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

A former pharmacist at a drug compounding firm has begun serving a 30 month jail sentence following his conviction on racketeering and mail fraud charges.
Records of the federal Bureau of Prisons show Gene Svirskiy, 38, of Ashland, Mass is an inmate at FCI Devens in central Massachusetts.
Svirskiy was one of 14 indicted in 2014 following a two year federal probe of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak. He was convicted late last year along with four other defendants connected to the now defunct New England Compounding Center.
Christopher Leary, 34, another NECC pharmacist, was sentenced at the same time as Svirskiy to eight months of home confinement.
Two other NECC defendants, Barry Cadden, 52, and Glenn Chin, 51, are serving sentences at federal prisons in Pennsylvania. Cadden was sentenced to nine years while Chin got an eight year sentence. They were also convicted on racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud charges.
Cadden was president and part owner of NECC and Chinn was a supervising pharmacist at NECC.
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