Meningitis outbreak: Murder or public health tragedy?
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March 17, 2017
BOSTON (AP) — Was it murder or a tragic public health outbreak?
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the trial of a former executive charged in a 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak offered jurors opposing theories Thursday about a public health crisis that killed 64 people and injured about 700 others in 20 states.
Barry Cadden, the co-founder and former president of the New England Compounding Center, is charged in a massive racketeering indictment with second-degree murder in the deaths of 25 people, as well as fraud and other charges.
During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Stra...
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