Four Cleared of Selling Defective Pacemakers

Four former Cordis Corp. officials were found innocent in federal court Friday of selling defective heart pacemakers between 1983 and 1985.

All have left the Miami-based company, which has since sold off its pacemaker division. Cordis itself had pleaded guilty previously and paid a $764,000 fine, along with $5 million in civil penalties, to various federal agencies.