"Brown Giving Away Donations From Compound Drug Execs" at TPM

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Brown Giving Away Donations From Compound Drug Execs

by Eric Lach at Talking Point Memo

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/brown_giving_away_funds_compound_drug_execs.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) plans to give away $10,000 in campaign funds he received from the owners and executives of a compounding pharmacy linked to the national meningitis outbreak that has sickened 185 people and killed 14.

The Brown campaign will donate the money to the Meningitis Foundation of America, The Boston Globe reported on Thursday.

Brown’s campaign has received $3,500 this cycle from Gregory Conigliaro, the co-owner of the New England Compounding Center (NECC), and another $2,500 from Lisa Conigliaro Cadden, Conigliaro’s sister and the wife of Barry Cadden, NECC’s other co-owner. In September, Gregory Conigliaro and his wife hosted a fundraiser for Brown at their Southborough, Mass., home. Alleigh Marré, press secretary from the Brown campaign, told the Globe that the campaign would not be donating all the money raised at the September event, only that received from NECC officials.

“Senator Brown supports a full and thorough investigation to determine responsibility for this tragedy and to ­ensure nothing like it ever happens again,” Marré said in a statement.

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1. They must have liked the idea of fewer regulations. Wonder how they all feel now.

I'm not sure that lack of regulation in major industries is something I would want to be associated with in the long term.

[JimDandy]

2. I'm sure Brown was going to donate to the

Meningitis assoc before this happened.

[sasha031]

3. the owner of New England Compounding Center had a fundraiser for Brown at his mansion

in turn he wrote a letter on behalf of NEC requesting the less regulation. He's giving some of the money back because momentarily one of the local stations did a piece on this.
Had the audacity to ask this not become a political issue.
I am so disappointed with the media, particular the Boston Globe(which once did good journalism) for their lack of interest in this, either they're are covering for him, or just plain lazy.

[hedda_foil]

4. He wrote a letter on their behalf to loosen regulations??

I don't see that in the article, though I may be too tired to read carefully. If it's there, I wonder if you could point to the right paragraph. If not, please post a link to mention of that letter elsewhere. Thc.

[sasha031]

5. Brown backed letter on behalf of compounders Scott Brown wrote letter calling on federal regulators

Senator Scott Brown joined 10 other senators in sending a July letter to the US Drug Enforcement Administration advocating a top legislative priority of the compounding pharmacy industry, which is under scrutiny following a deadly meningitis outbreak.
The July 24 letter did not directly relate to the injectable steroids that have been blamed for 14 deaths and at least 185 sicknesses nationwide. But it addressed an issue central to that controversy: how these lightly regulated pharmacies can deliver their drugs and who can receive them.


The firm at the center of the meningitis outbreak, the New England Compounding Center, was sending drugs in bulk to doctors, a move that Governor Deval Patrick said has misled regulators. Compounding pharmacies are supposed to mix medications for an individual patient, based on a prescription from a doctor. But some have acted like drug companies, shipping thousands of doses to clinics and doctors’ offices, a practice Massachusetts officials say may violate state regulations.

http://www.boston.com/news/2012/10/12/scott-brown-wrote-letter-calling-federal-regulators-change-enforcement-drug-distribution/1s8ZQHbeGmsSejHnTKQ97J/story.html