United States v. Conigliaro

Richard G. Stearns, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Once a promising niche drug business, the now defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC) willfully deviated from pharmaceutical industry safety standards in a mad pursuit of profits. Scores died and hundreds were injured when three contaminated batches of injectable methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) triggered a national outbreak of fungal meningitis. In the third of the four federal jury trials that followed, defendants Gregory Conigliaro and Sharon Carter were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States Food and Drug Administration…