Judge Accepts Officials’ Plea Agreements In Veterans Home COVID-19 Death Cases

(March 29, 2024, 12:41 PM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A former superintendent and a former medical director of a veterans home entered plea agreements in a Massachusetts state court for their roles in commingling COVID-19-symptomatic residents with asymptomatic residents, leading to 76 deaths, admitting that the charges against them sufficed to make a finding of guilt while agreeing to satisfy court-imposed conditions for three months....