When he tried to sell parts of a lethal injection machine and other items from Fred Leuchter Associates, many of which were part of projects done for states who had refused to pay him for previously contracted or agreed-on work, he was again charged. He claimed that the Massachusetts Attorney General had to explain that the sale of the offered equipment was not, in fact, illegal, states started denying his contracts on the basis of his lack of qualifications. His wife divorced him in this same period.
