Prosecutor in Deadly Meningitis Case Joins WilmerHale

George Varghese joined WilmerHale as a partner in the firm’s Boston office, following more than a decade of work as a federal prosecutor in Washington and Massachusetts.

Varghese, who managed investigations and litigation of complex criminal cases involving health care fraud, money laundering, racketeering, cybersecurity, economic sanctions, will work out of the firm’s white collar defense and investigations group.

While an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, he led the prosecution of New England Compounding Center. That was the pharmacy responsible for a nationwide deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012.

“It took up the last seven years of my career,” Varghese ...