Three attorneys accused of bilking their clients in a diet drug settlement must repay at least $62.1 million in settlement funds and interest, a Kentucky judge ruled Friday. Special Judge William Wehr ordered William J. Gallion, Shirley A. Cunningham Jr. and Melbourne Mills Jr. to repay $42 million taken from the settlement and $20.1 million in interest. The attorneys are being sued by about 400 former clients who claim the lawyers took too much money as part of a $200 million fen-phen settlement.
August 06, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Three attorneys accused of bilking their clients in a diet drug settlement must repay at least $62.1 million in settlement funds and interest, a Kentucky judge ruled Friday.
Special Judge William Wehr ordered William J. Gallion, 56, Shirley A. Cunningham Jr., 52, and Melbourne Mills Jr., 76, to repay $42 million taken from the settlement and $20.1 million in interest. Wehr said the interest was 8 percent over the six years the attorneys had the funds.
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