By Walter F. Roche Jr.
A federal judge has denied motions for a new trial by the last two defendants in the criminal case stemming from the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
In a brief order issued today U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns rejected new trial requests for Gregory Conigliaro and Sharon P. Carter, both formerly affiliated with the now defunct New England Compounding Center, the company blamed for the fungal meningitis outbreak, which ultimately took the lives of more than 100 patients.
Conigliaro was vice president and part owner of NECC. Carter was an NECC supervisor.
The two were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. NECC shipped thousands of vials of methylprednisolone acetate contaminated with deadly fungi to hundrerds of health care providers across the country.
Stearns had originally cleared the two of the charges, but they were reinstated by the 1st Circuit Court of appeals.
Carter and Conigliaro were among 14 people affiliated with NECC who were indicted in late 2014 after a two-year federal investigation of the outbreak. Only one of the 14 was cleared of the charges.
In the order issued today Stearns also asked the court clerk to set a date for the sentencing of Carter and Conigliaro.
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