(18 Apr 2024)
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Howell, Michigan — 18 April 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Nuerenberg, daughter of victim Mary Plettl:
"I felt that how things developed today were, just disrespectful to the victims who came today, who worked hard to prepare, to prepare statements on behalf of their loved one that were meaningful and impactful. And I was absolutely blindsided by this. Of all the things like what happened today, I did not think we’d be adjourned for another two weeks. Yeah. It’s, started off with its, disappointing."
2. Wide of courthouse
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3. SOUNDBITE (Enlgih) Ken Borton, who survived getting a tainted steroid shot:
"You know, it’s it’s been a tough road, but, you know, I’m not I’m not liking what’s going on here today."
STORYLINE:
A 12-year saga over a fatal national meningitis outbreak still isn’t over.
A man whose specialty pharmacy caused the outbreak in 2012 was supposed to be sentenced Thursday in Michigan for involuntary manslaughter. But the hearing was suddenly postponed until May when a different judge took the case.
Relatives of some of the deceased in Michigan were prepared to give victim-impact statements.
Peggy Nuerenberg, whose 88-year-old mother, Mary Plettl, died after getting a tainted steroid injection for pain, said she was “absolutely blindsided."
"I felt that how things developed today were just disrespectful to the victims who came today, who worked hard to prepare, to prepare statements on behalf of their loved one that were meaningful and impactful," she said.
Barry Cadden operated New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. It shipped tainted painkillers to clinics around the country. More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with meningitis or other debilitating illnesses and at least 64 died.
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