LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — With just days left in his term, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has charged the two principal officials responsible for an outbreak of fungal meningitis with second degree murder.
Barry Cadden and Pharmacist Glenn Chin of the New England Compounding Center are already serving federal time for their roles in the outbreak.
Contaminated steroids they were preparing for clinics which was administered to relieve chronic back pain infected hundreds with a nasty dose of meningitis.
Nationwide, 76 died and many hundreds of others were permanently disabled, including a few in Southwest Michigan who received the shots from a clinic in Northern Indiana.
The Michigan murder charges list 11 deaths in Livingston County.
A spokesperson for the Atttorney General says they are filing now because they had to wait for the conclusion of the federal trials.
The cases will be handed over to incoming Attorney General Dana Nessel to follow through.
