A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected
more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a
judge called his request for compassionate release "the least
meritorious" he'd ever seen.
David Kwiatkowski
was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers
and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his
blood. Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, he
had worked as a cardiac technologist in ...