Mass). Former Sen. Brown ended up donating the $10,000 he received
from NECC employees to the Meningitis Foundation of America.
Doug and Carla Conigliaro, already the owners of a $2.4 million
house in Dedham, Mass., bought a $1.2 million condo in Winter Park,
Fla., in 2005. Between 2010 and 2012, Carla Conigliaro received nearly
$18 million in distributions from NECC. They bought a $4.2 million
townhouse in Boston's tony Back Bay area early in 2012.
Business as usual
Back at NECC, it was getting busy. The pressure was on to crank out
the shipments, even if it meant cutting corners and covering those cut
corners up.
In 2011, an NECC salesman told staffers, "Oh, I got a bunch of stuff
coming for you guys. You guys are gonna be busy. I'm gonna keep you
guys moving," pharmacy tech Scott Connolly told the TV news-
magazine 60 Minutes. "And that just meant compound it, process it,
get it out the door."
Mr. Connolly said the output increased exponentially. "We became
a manufacturer overnight ... trying to manufacture without the over-
sight of a manufacturer."
A version of the events that followed can be found in a 2014 grand jury
indictment (it's important to note that all the defendants have pleaded
not guilty.)
Sometime in 2011, NECC found it was having a documentation
problem. Customers were refusing to provide prescriptions for the
medications they were ordering. Perturbed, Mr. Cadden wrote direc-
tor of sales Rob Ronzio: "Unfortunately we are a 'pharmacy' ... how
can you get medication from a pharmacy without a prescription
which must contain a patient name. We must connect the patients to
the dosage forms at some point in the process to prove that we are
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