The owner of New England Compounding Center responsible for over 700 cases of fungal meningitis and 64 deaths, Barry J. Cadden, was sentenced to 9 years in prison by Judge Richard Stearns. The case exposed routine problems with the pharmacy’s procedures that put patients at great risk. I don’t disagree with the judge’s decision at all. What I want to know is how did Raymond Gilmartin, then CEO of Merck, not go to jail for the purposeful science cover-up that lead to 88,000+ hear attacks, and 38,000+ verifiable Vioxx related deaths? Merck did however spend $4.85 billion to satisfy some 47,000 plaintiff law suits and 265 potential class action law suits. See folks... you can mass-murder in the USA and not go to jail as long as you have enough money to spread around. I say Raymond Gilmartin needs to go to jail since he was running Merck during this atrocity....
