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Lisa Cadden,wife of pharmaceutical exec convicted in meningitis outbreak that killed 76 asks court to keep her mansion, beach house, diamonds and autos, out of restitution fund

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1a0101&semi;"><strong>Lisa Cadden&comma; 50&comma; filed a court petition in Boston Massachusetts to protect her riches and stop c<&sol;strong><strong>ourt from seizing more than &dollar;3&period;6M in assets&comma; including &dollar;1&period;5M trust fund <&sol;strong> <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1a0101&semi;"><strong>Cadden&comma; 50&comma; is the wife of pharmaceutical exec who was convicted in meningitis outbreak that killed 76 begs to<&sol;strong><strong> keep her mansion&comma; beach house&comma; diamonds and BMW<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1a0101&semi;"><strong>Lisa&comma; also a pharmacist filed the suit as the court n<&sol;strong><strong>ow seeks family wealth to pay &dollar;7&period;5M judgement to victim&&num;8217&semi;s fa<&sol;strong>milies <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1a0101&semi;"><strong>Husband Barry Cadden&comma; 51&comma; is serving nine years for racketeering and fraud after f<&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1a0101&semi;"><strong>oul conditions at his pharma firm&comma; NECC&comma; was linked to the deaths in 2012 meningitis outbreak<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286631" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Barry-Cadden-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Barry Cadden 1" width&equals;"685" height&equals;"446" &sol;><strong>Pharmacist Barry Cadden&comma;was sentenced to nine years in prison in March after he was convicted for racketeering and fraud for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Six months into his nine-year sentence&comma; the wife of a pharmaceutical executive who was convicted in a horrendous malpractice suit that saw a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people is praying the courts to protect his assets from seizure and forfeiture that will fund the restitution owed his victims&&num;8217&semi; families&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;50-year-old Lisa Cadden has requested that the court in Boston&comma; Massachusetts  not force her into forfeiture of her diamonds&comma; mansions&comma; and a performance BMW&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lisa Cadden&comma; 50&comma; and her three children filed a petition with the US District Court of Massachusetts seeking to protect &dollar;3&period;6million of family riches from a court-ordered seizure for victim restitution&comma; the <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bostonherald&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&lowbar;coverage&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;wife&lowbar;of&lowbar;convicted&lowbar;pharmacy&lowbar;executive&lowbar;begs&lowbar;to&lowbar;keep&lowbar;mansion&lowbar;diamonds&lowbar;and" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Boston Herald<&sol;a> reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her husband Barry Cadden&comma; 51&comma;  was the co-founder and former president of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center &lpar;NECC&rpar;&comma; which shipped contaminated steroid injections to 23 states in 2012&comma; causing an outbreak of fungal meningitis&period; He was subsequently convicted on racketeering and fraud charges and sentenced in June to serve nine years in prison&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The conviction also carried a hefty &dollar;7&period;5million restitution commitment as part of the plea&period; However&comma; Barry Cadden&&num;8217&semi;s wife Lisa&comma; a pharmacist who also worked at the company but was not criminally charged&comma; is seeking to protect their riches from the &dollar;7&period;5million restitution judgement&comma; the court mandated settlement package for the victims of the outbreak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"clear"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286637" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Barry-Cadden-is-matched-off-after-his-conviction-&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Barry Cadden is matched off after his conviction &period;jpg" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"567" &sol;><strong>Barry Cadden &lbrack;center&rsqb; was sentenced to nine years in prison in June&comma; after being convicted over an outbreak caused by his company&&num;8217&semi;s medication&period; His wife Lisa&comma; a pharmacist who also worked at the company but was not criminally charged&period; wants the restitution part of the judgement&comma; essentially to go away&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286629" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Lisa-Cadden-and-Barry-Caddens-1&period;6M-Mass&period;-home&period;png" alt&equals;"Lisa Cadden&comma; and Barry Cadden's &dollar;1&period;6M Mass&period; home" width&equals;"898" height&equals;"588" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Lisa Cadden and her children have petitioned the court to protect the Caddens&&num;8217&semi; &dollar;1&period;4million mansion in Wrentham&comma; <span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 10&period;72px&semi;">Massachusetts<&sol;span> &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; as well as millions in other assets from a victim&&num;8217&semi;s restitution judgement&period;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">In her petition&comma; Lisa Cadden is praying the courts to protect the a &dollar;1&period;5million trust fund&comma; which was established in 2007&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The family also petitioned to keep their &dollar;1&period;4million mansion in Wrentham&comma; Massachusetts as well as an oceanfront vacation home in North Kingstown&comma; Rhode Island assessed at &dollar;594&comma;300&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As well&comma; the Caddens asked the court to let them keep a red BMW M3 purchased for &dollar;86&comma;662 and &dollar;26&comma;000 in diamonds bought from DeScenza&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The petition came in response to Judge Richard G&period; Stearns&&num;8217&semi; preliminary order that those assets be forfeited to help compensate victims&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Victims and their family members reacted with disgust at news of the Caddens&&num;8217&semi; plea to void the judgement by stripping off sources of the victim fund&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-286636" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;BMW-M3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"BMW M3&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;><strong>he Lisa Caddens is seeking to keep a red BMW M3 purchased for &dollar;86&comma;662&comma; that is destined for the victim fund <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;It may not be Christian of me&comma; but as far as I&&num;8217&semi;m concerned&comma; Barry Cadden&comma; his wife and children can end up in a trailer park&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Kathy Pugh of Michigan told the Boston Herald&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Her mother&comma; Evelyn Bates-March&comma; 86&comma; died February 28 of respiratory failure nearly five years after developing an abscess on her spine from an NECC shot&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;This doesn&&num;8217&semi;t surprise me&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s always been about the money&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Pugh said of the petition&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The scandal first unfolded in 2012&comma; when more than 800 people were sickened and at least 76 eventually died&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The outbreak spread through steroid injections contaminated with a common mold that is normally harmless&comma; but caused major complications when injected directly into patients&&num;8217&semi; spinal columns&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors said Barry Cadden&comma; the compounding pharmacy&&num;8217&semi;s head pharmacist&comma; ran his company as a criminal enterprise&comma; selling substandard and non-sterile drugs to medical facilities nationwide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They said he directed the shipment of 17&comma;600 vials of contaminated steroids often prescribed for back pain despite knowing they were made in unsafe conditions&comma; leading to the outbreak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-286634" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Lisa-Cadden-and-Barry-Caddens-600000-beachfront-home&period;png" alt&equals;"Lisa Cadden&comma; and Barry Cadden's &dollar;600&comma;000 beachfront home&period;png" width&equals;"682" height&equals;"433" &sol;><strong>The Caddens second home is a well-appointed oceanfront vacation home in North Kingstown&comma; Rhode Island&comma; which was assessed at &dollar;594&comma;300&period;  They are hoping to keep the home as well<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The 51-year-old Pharmacist was sentenced to nine years in prison in March after he was convicted for racketeering and fraud and conspiracy for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Barry Cadden was convicted of the lesser charges of fraud and racketeering by a federal jury in Boston but cleared of the harshest charges he faced&comma; second-degree murder &&num;8211&semi; acquitted of 25 counts of second-degree murder&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;NECC distributed nearly 18&comma;000 vials of mold-contaminated steroids to 23 states in 2012&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The drugs triggered meningitis in over 800 people&period; This specific strain of the illness was caused by a fungus called Exserohilum rostratum&comma; a black mold that normally attacks plants&period; It is a fungus rarely hurts humans&comma; but morphed into major health issues when injected into human&&num;8217&semi;s spinal columns&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Barry Cadden is serving a nine-year sentence at a low-security penitentiary in Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;

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