By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The pharmacist' license of one of the defendants in the criminal case stemming from the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak has been placed on probation.
Records from the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy show Kathy S. Chin was placed on probationary status as of Dec. 21. The board's web site does not provide any additional information.
Requests to the board for additional information went unanswered.
Chin was convicted of four felony counts of violating the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act in 2019. She was one of 14 persons connected to the New England Compounding Center who were indicted in 2014 following a two year federal probe of the fungal meningitis outbreak.
The state pharmacy board had voted to send her case to its prosecution unit after attempts to reach a settlement on her license status failed. The board had proposed an agreement under which she would have retained her license but with special restrictions.
Following her conviction Chin was sentenced to two years probation by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns.
Her busband, Glenn Chin was convicted on charges of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud. Glenn Chin was given an eight year federal prison sentence. He is awaiting trial in Michigan on second degree murder charges in the deaths of Michigan patients who died following injection of NECC steroids contaminated with deadly fungi.
Glenn Chin was a supervising pharmacist at NECC and oversaw the clean room where the tainted steroids were produced.
Kathy Chin was a verifying pharmacist at NECC and prosecutors charged that she approved the shipment of drugs prescribed for obviously fake patients.
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Not to bad, one of the few jobs you can do with a felony counts on your record.
ReplyDeleteAt one time you couldn’t even enlist in military service with a felony let alone 4.
Helping 100s along there journey home. Creating life long challenges to survive for 100s x 8. This whole case cut and dried, sure has lots of mud and sand kicked on the case.
What a great place to live, if you are one of these fine people. Most other people with similar records can’t even rent a roof, to sleep under, or find the job to pay the rent