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Glenn Chin, supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, who was charged in a deadly meningitis outbreak, has been cleared of murder allegations. A Boston jury on Wednesday found Chin not guilty of causing the deaths of 25 people who were injected with mold-tainted drugs. But jurors convicted Chin of mail fraud and racketeering.
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A pharmacist at a facility whose tainted drugs sparked a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people was cleared Wednesday of murder but was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering.
Jurors said prosecutors failed to prove Glenn Chin was responsible for the deaths of people who were injected with mold-contaminated drugs produced by the now-closed New England Compounding Center in Framingham, just west of Boston. As the supervisory pharmacist, Chin oversaw the so-called clean rooms where the drugs were made.
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