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Meningitis Outbreak

The First Circuit upheld the convictions of the former president of a compounding pharmacy and its supervising pharmacist involved in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people. Their sentences, however, were vacated because of the district court’s errors in its justification for not applying certain enhancements.

BOSTON — The First Circuit upheld the convictions of the former president of a compounding pharmacy and its supervising pharmacist involved in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people. Their sentences, however, were vacated because of the district court’s errors in its justification for not applying certain enhancements.

Categories / Appeals, Criminal, Health

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