By Walter F. Roche Jr.
December sentencing dates have been set for the final two defendants in the criminal case stemming from the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns, sitting in Boston, Mass., set a Dec. 1 hearing for Gregory Conigliaro and a Dec. 13 date for Sharon Carter.*
Conigliaro was vice president and part owner of the now defunct New England Compounding Center. Carter was a supervisor for the drug compounding firm.
Both were convicted of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by making it appear that NECC was a small family owned drug compounding firm not subject to federal regulation. In fact the firm was shipping thousands of vials of compounded pharmaceuticals all over the country.
The two were convicted by a jury in late 2018, but were then acquitted by Stearns in June of 2019. A federal appeals court overturned Stearn's decision and restored the guilty verdicts.
Conigliaro and Carter were among 14 people connected to NECC following a two year probe of the fungal meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated drugs shipped by NECC. Ultimately over 800 patients died after being injected with fungus riddled steroids.
*In fact Stearns issued two Conigliaro orders, the second appaarently overiding the first which had called for a Dec. 8 hearing
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