Renewed Early Release Request Denied.

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

A federal judge has once again denied a request by a convicted pharmacist to get an early release from prison where he is serving a 30 month sentence for his role in a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
In a two-page ruling issued Wednesday U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns turned down the plea of Gene Svirskiy to serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement.
Svirskiy had sought the release citing the ongoing pandemic and his prior medical diagnoses.
Svirkiy was one of 14 indicted in late 2014 folloing a two year probe of the fungal meningitis outbreak which ultimately took the lives of more than 100 patients.
In rejecting the request Stearns cited his decision in a prior request in which he said he did not have the legal right to let Svirskiy serve the remainder of his term under house arrest.
Stearns also cited the decision of the warden at FMC Devens, the prison where Svirskiy is incarcerated, who also has turned down Svirskiy's early release request.
Svirskiy was sentenced to the 30 month sentence following his conviction on charges of racketeering, mail fraud and violations of the food drug and cosmetic act.
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