BOSTON — Five more people have been convicted on charges related to a deadly meningitis outbreak stemming from a Framingham pharmacy.
An owner and four former employees of the New England Compounding Center were convicted in Federal court.
The U.S. Attorney announced the convictions in a Tweet Thursday morning.
A pharmacist accused of making the drugs that caused the deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak showed a "shocking disregard" for human life by failing to ensure the medicines were safe, a prosecutor told jurors in a previous trial in 2017.
Glenn Chin, the supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, ran the clean rooms where the drugs were made. He was convicted of second-degree murder and other crimes under federal racketeering law for his role in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds of others.
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