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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Courts - More on "Two Kentucky diet-drug lawyers permanently disbarred"

Updating this Oct. 24, 2008 ILB entry, that headline wasn't the half of it. This story yesterday from the Lexington Herald-Leader, reported by Beth Musgrave, is headlined "Fen-phen attorneys sentenced to decades in prison: 25 years for Gallion, 20 for Cunningham." The story begins:

COVINGTON — Two disbarred lawyers convicted of taking millions of dollars from their former clients are likely to spend much of their remaining lives in a federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves sentenced William Gallion, 58, to 25 years in prison and Shirley Cunningham Jr., 54, to 20 years in prison on Monday after a nearly daylong sentencing hearing in federal court in Covington.

Both sentences were less than what prosecutors had recommended for the two men, who were convicted in April of taking about $94 million from a $200 million fen-phen settlement that should have gone to their former clients in a 2001 Boone Circuit Court case.

Also yesterday, Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press had this story, headed "Attorneys Convicted Over Diet-Drug Settlement Sentenced to Jail, Ordered to Pay $127 Million."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 19, 2009 09:40 AM
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