(11 Oct 2024)
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Howell, Michigan – 11 October 2024
1. Defendant Glenn Chin is escorted into a Livingston County Circuit courtroom
2. Circuit Judge Matthew McGivney’s clerk calls the case and hands the file to the judge
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Livingston, Glenn Chin’s attorney:
“Nothing that anybody can say or do, obviously, will bring back the individuals that were lost from this tragedy. I know that Mr. Chin hopes that this sentencing will bring at least some closure to their friends and family. I know he’s always been open with his attorneys about his deep and genuine grief that he feels for the people affected by this. And he continues to pray for them.”
4. McGivney on the bench
5. UPSOUND Given the opportunity to speak, Chin says (English) “My counsel have advised me to remain reticent. Thank you, Your Honor.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Matthew McGivney, Livingston County Circuit Court:
“There can be no doubt that you knew the risk that you were exposing these innocent patients to. You promoted production and sales. You prioritized money, sacrificing the cleaning and testing protocols that kept the medication safe for patients. Your focus on increased sales, increased margins cost people their lives.”
7. Chin listens as McGivney sentences him
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Matthew McGivney, Livingston County Circuit Court:
“It is the sentence of the court that you be sentenced to a term of seven-and-a-half to 15 years with credit from March 14th of 2018, or 2,404 days credit — six years, six months and 28 days — on Count 1.”
9. Chin listens
10. Chin leaves the courtroom
STORYLINE:
A Massachusetts pharmacist was sentenced Friday in Michigan to 7 1/2 to 15 years prison for his role in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed dozens of people.
Neither Glenn Chin nor relatives of the Michigan victims made statements at his sentencing in Livingston County Circuit Court in Howell, northwest of Detroit.
“I know that Mr. Chin hopes that this sentencing will bring at least some closure to their friends and family,” defense attorney Bill Livingston said in court. “He’s always been open with his attorneys about his deep and genuine grief that he feels for the people affected by this.”
The 56-year-old Chin pleaded no contest in August to involuntary manslaughter in the 11 Michigan deaths.
He already is serving a 10 1/2-year federal sentence for racketeering, fraud and other crimes connected to the outbreak, following a 2017 trial in Boston. The Michigan sentence also will be served in federal prison. He will get more than 6 1/2 years of credit for time already served.
Chin supervised production at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, which shipped steroids for pain relief to clinics across the country. Investigators said the lab was rife with mold and insects. More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other debilitating illnesses, and dozens died. That’s according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Michigan has been the only state to prosecute Chin and his boss, Barry Cadden, for deaths related to the scandal. Chin supervised production for Cadden.
Judge Matthew McGivney told Chin Friday that evidence showed he caused or encouraged employees to fail to properly test drugs for sterility, failed to properly sterilize drugs and failed to properly clean and disinfect clean rooms.
Cadden pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Michigan earlier this year and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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