Undated - The co-founder of a specialty pharmacy that was at the center of a deadly national meningitis outbreak has pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Michigan.
Barry Cadden was co-founder of New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. About 800 patients in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other infections and about 100 died after receiving injections of mold-tainted steroids, mostly for back pain, in 2012. Eleven died in Michigan.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says that under a deal reached with Cadden, his prison sentence of 10 to 15 years will be served at the same time as his current 14-and-a-half year federal sentence for fraud and other crimes. He'll return to court in April.
