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Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
U.S District Court Judge William Bertlesman has declared a mistrial, as jurors deadlock on two lawyers charged with diet-drug settlement fraud. The jury had been considering the fate of suspended lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunnin gham Jr., who are accused of defrauding their clients out of $65 million Fen-Phen settlement. The third attorney defendant Melbourne Mills was...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
A federal prosecutor challenged suspended lawyer William Gallion's assertion that authorities withheld evidence in a $65 million fraud case against him and two co-defendants.
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Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Fen-phen lawyer testifies from HERALD LEADER; click on heading for entire story William Gallion admitted Friday that he never told a judge in a controversial $200 million fen-phen settlement that he had contracts with his clients that would limit his fees to roughly 30 percent of the settlement. Gallion told a jury in federal court in Covington that he did not think that he had...
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Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... former clients in a diet-drug settlement. But an Oct. 14 start for the second criminal trial of William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. is unlikely. Federal prosecutors said in court Wednesday that they may seek additional charges against the two men, and defense lawyers told U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves that an October trial date will likely conflict with their schedules.
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
William Gallion enters the Federal Courthouse in Covington, Ky., June 21, 2007. (Credit: AP/Ed Reinke) Sometime next week, we’re likely to find out whether William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham, the two remaining defendants in the Fen-Phen lawyer trial, will face a second trial. Last Thursday, a mistrial was declared when jurors told Judge William Bertelsman they...
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Two lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a diet-drug settlement of $65 million were sent back to jail Thursday after a jury deadlocked and a federal judge declared a mistrial. The jury had considered the case against suspended lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. for eight days, and twice in two days sent out notes indicating it was stumped. A third defendant,...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
William Gallion enters the Federal Courthouse in Covington, Ky., June 21, 2007. (Credit: AP/Ed Reinke) This just in from Covington, Kentucky: After about six weeks of trial and 50 hours of jury deliberation, a mistrial was declared this afternoon in the trial of the two remaining Fen Phen defendants — Shirley Cunnigham and William Gallion. On [...]
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
- Two lawyers charged with looting a $200 million settlement that they won for Kentuckians sickened by the diet drug fen-phen almost walked free after an eight-week trial, the foreman of the jury said.Donald Rainone said jurors were deadlocked at 10-2 on July 3 in favor of acquitting Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion. A third defendant, Melbourne Mills Jr., was found not guilty...
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Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In a trial known for odd twists and developments, here is another as the trial judge, William Bertlesman, recuses himself in Herald Leader story entitled "Fen-phen judge recuses himself from case" According to an order entered Monday, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman will step down as the judge in the criminal case against William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr....
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... force the sale to settle a $42 million civil judgment against attorneys Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion. They own a minority stake in the horse.Ford represents more than 400 people suing Gallion and Cunningham over their handling of a settlement involving the diet drug fen-phen.A spokesman for Jess Jackson, who owns an 80 percent stake in Curlin, says Ford's request...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Last updated July 8, 2008 1:11 p.m. PTAttorney in diet drug case seeks Curlin saleTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- An attorney wants a judge to force the public auction of 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin.Lexington attorney Angela Ford asked a state judge Tuesday to force the sale to settle a $42 million civil judgment against attorneys Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion. They...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... headed a group with three partners in buying a majority interest in the chestnut colt from lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. Jackson later bought out his partners. Gallion and Cunningham retain a 20 percent interest in the 2007 Horse of the Year.Gallion and Cunningham are awaiting a second trial on charges that they conspired to illegally take $65 million...
