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U.S. NEWS Thursday 1 February 2018

Pharmacist in meningitis

outbreak gets 8 years in prison

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER house. Chin said he knows the hospital. The daughter
Associated Press some victims will never for- compared the sound of
BOSTON (AP) — A Massa- give him, but will continue her mother's screams to the
chusetts pharmacist con- to pray that they will find sound of the ship careen-
victed for his role in the some sort of peace. ing into the ocean in the
deadly 2012 meningitis "I realize these are just movie "Titanic," Strachan
outbreak fought through words and nothing will bring said.
sobs as he apologized to back your loved ones," the "That's the sound that she
victims and their families 49-year-old said, occasion- has in her head when she
Wednesday before he was ally turning to look directly thinks about her mother's
sentenced to eight years in at the victims and their rel- death," Strachan said. "It's In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Glenn Chin, supervisory phar-
prison. atives seated behind him. the sound made by Glenn macist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center,
Nearly 80 people died and "But believe me when I say Chin's conduct." leaves federal court in Boston.
almost 800 were sickened that I am truly sorry that this Mary Beth Krakowski of Associated Press
in what's considered the ever occurred," he said. South Bend, Indiana, niece of Alice Machowiak. corners and ignored warn-
worst public health crisis in Prosecutors wanted a whose aunt died at age 88 Chin was convicted in Oc- ing signs that the pharma-
recent U.S. history. 35-year-sentence for Chin, after being injected with tober of racketeering and cy's production methods
The fungal meningitis out- pointing to the devastat- the contaminated drugs, mail fraud but was cleared were unsafe in order to
break was caused by ing impact the outbreak told Chin he had a chance of second-degree murder, boost production and prof-
mold-tainted steroid injec- had on families across the to be a "hero" and blow the which could have brought its.
tions produced by the New country. Chin's lawyers whistle on the pharmacy's a life sentence. Chin's attorneys argued
England Compounding asked for about three years dangerous practices. He had had been charged that he didn't deserve more
Center. behind bars. "How did you get lost? How with the deaths of 25 peo- time behind bars than the
Glen Chinn, who ran the so- Assistant U.S. Attorney did you lose those ideals? ple in Florida, Indiana, pharmacy's co-founder,
called clean rooms where Amanda Strachan relayed How could you have fallen Maryland, Michigan, North Barry Cadden, who's serv-
the drugs were made, how a victim's daughter so far to become uncaring, Carolina, Tennessee and ing a nine-year sentence
sobbed as he struggled said she heard her mother's cold and callous enough Virginia. for his role in the outbreak.
through his statement dur- scream of pain from floors to put the patients' wel- Throughout his trial, pros- Cadden also was acquit-
ing his sentencing hearing below when the daugh- fare behind your personal ecutors portrayed him as a ted of second-degree
in Boston's federal court- ter visited her mother in gain?" asked Krakowski, the callous employee who cut murder.q

Cop: Defendant said slain man

disliked him because he’s gay

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A po- for the 2016 shooting death ra’s family targeted him
lice officer has testified of 37-year-old Khalid Jaba- because he’s gay.
that an Oklahoma man ra. Majors has pleaded not
charged with a hate crime Tulsa officer Josh Metcalf guilty and was found com-
in the killing of his Lebanese testified Tuesday that Ma- petent to stand trial.
neighbor said the slain man jors called Jabara “creepy” Prosecutors say Majors
didn’t like him because he and a terrorist who disliked shot Jabara after years of
is gay. him because of his sexual- harassment that included
Testimony resumed ity. Defense attorneys have calling the family “filthy
In this Feb. 15, 2017 photo, Stanley Majors, accused of killing
Khalid Jabara, is escorted into a courtroom at the Tulsa County Wednesday in the first- tried to show that Majors Lebanese” and “Moo-
Courthouse for his preliminary hearing in Tulsa, Okla. degree murder trial of was mentally ill and have slems.” The Jabaras are
Associated Press 63-year-old Stanley Majors said he feared that Jaba- Christian.q