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.
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.
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.
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