Michelle Caetano Thomas, who left her post at the university last week, was convicted in a Boston federal court May 3 for allegedly signing off on fraudulent prescriptions for fake patients with names like “Coco Puff,” and “Filet O’ Fish.”
Prosecutors said Ms. Thomas was a verification pharmacist for New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., a now-defunct pharmacy blamed for a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people. Ms. Thomas was not liked to the meningitis outbreak.
She is appealing her fraud conviction.
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