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{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Shira Schoenberg (December 17, 2014). "Fourteen arrested, including owners, for meningitis outbreak tied to New England Compounding Center". The Republican . Retrieved December 19, 2014.
Those arrested include: Owner, president and head pharmacist Barry Cadden; owner and director Greg Conigliaro; national sales director Robert Ronzio; shareholder and director Carla Conigliaro; Conigliaro's husband Doug Conigliaro, who was president of Medical Sales Management, which provided sales and administrative services to New England Compounding Pharmacy; Pharmacists Glenn Chin, Gene Svirskiy, Christopher Leary, Joseph Evanosky, Alla Stepanets, Kathy Chin and Michelle Thomas; Pharmacy technician Scott Connolly; and Pharmacy technician and later director of operations Sharon Carter.
- ↑ Laura Strickler (October 16, 2012). "Inside the New England Compounding Center". CBS News . Retrieved December 19, 2014.
The New England Compounding Center was founded by brothers-in-law Greg Conigliaro and Barry Cadden.[5] The owners are Carla R. Conigliaro, Barry J. Cadden, Lisa M. Conigliaro and Gregory A. Conigliaro., according to public records from the Secretary of Commonwealth.
- ↑ "NECC sterility pharmacist arrested". The Tennessean .
- ↑ Abby Goodnough, Sabrine Tavernise and Andrew Pollack (October 24, 2012). "Spotlight Put on Founders of Drug Firm in Outbreak". The New York Times . Retrieved December 19, 2014.
Since the national outbreak began in September, most of the scrutiny has been focused on two founders of New England Compounding, Gregory Conigliaro, an entrepreneur who has run a major recycling operation for two decades, and Mr. Cadden, the pharmacist who married Mr. Conigliaro's sister Lisa, also a pharmacist.
- ↑ - Brian E. Dickerson, Anthony J. Calamunci, Nicole Hughes Waid, Amy L. Butler and Katy Wane (30 June 2017). "Pharmacist at Center of 2012 Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison". Fisher Broyles LLP. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Investors buying compounders: Drug shortages are persisting, leading to the deals, by Jaimy Lee, Modern Healthcare, January 13, 2013.
- ↑ Barry Cadden, Gregory Conigliaro, Of New England Compounding Center, Had Background In Recycling, by Jay Lindsay, Associated Press, October 13, 2012.
- ↑ "Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningitis Outbreak", Denise Grady; Andrew Pollack; Sabrina Tavernisd, The New York Times , October 6, 2012
- ↑ "New England Compounding Center, Pharmacy Linked To Meningitis Outbreak, Files For Bankruptcy". The Huffington Post . December 21, 2012.
- ↑ Meningitis-linked pharmacy owners got millions: filing, by Tim McGlaughlin, Reuters, January 22, 2013.