Federal agents arrest 14 tied to compounding pharmacy blamed for meningitis outbreak

Two co-founders and 12 other former employees of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy blamed for a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people were arrested early Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said. Gregory Conigliaro and Barry Cadden, co-founders of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, were among 14 people arrested at their homes around the state, attorney's office spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling said. One of those arrested was Glenn Adam Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist, who had been charged with mail fraud in September. Tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy were blamed for a 2012 outbreak.