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Former Spectranetics (NSDQ:SPNC) CEO John Schulte was sentenced May 29 to a year of probation after being convicted in March on a single count of lying to federal investigators about his role in the allegedly illegal importation of laser medical devices for a clinical trial.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office had recommended that he be sentenced to 2 years in prison and 3 years of probation, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
The families of 2 patients who died on the operating table during spine surgery involving the use of Synthes’ Norian XR bone cement are suing the company and 4 former executives for wrongful death and elder abuse, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, was brought by the families of Ryoichi Kikuchi and Barbara Marcelino, both 83. They died after surgeons injected the bone cement during their procedures, but there is no definitive link between their deaths and use of the cement as a cause of death, according to the newspaper.
