By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The government's star witness will serve no prison time for his role in a deadly fungal meningitis that ultimately took the lives of more than 100 patients across the country.
In U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Richard G. Stearns, following the recommendation of prosecutors, sentenced Robert A. Ronzio to "time served," which means he will serve no jail time.
In fact Ronzio has served little or no jail time since his indictment in 2014.
Ronzio entered a guilty plea to a charge that he conspired to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Ronzio was the national sales director for the New England Compounding Center, the firm blamed for the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
NECC told regulators that the company only filled prescriptions with patient specific prescriptions. In fact the company was mass producing drugs without proper prescriptions
A Rhode Island resident, Ronzio was one of 14 people connected to NECC who were indicted in December of 2014.
Ronzio testified extensively for the U.S. Attorney's office in the trials of his former NECC colleagues.
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