Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Forfeiture Ordered In Diet Drug Scam

{Lexington, Kentucky}...U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves in Lexington has ordered that all the assets from 61 year old William Gallion and 57 year old Shirley Cunningham Jr. be sold with the proceeds going to repay more than 400 former clients defrauded in a fen-phen diet drug settlement. A federal appeals court in May upheld the convictions of Gallion and Cunningham and ordered them to pay $127,678,834 in restitution. The former attorneys have been ordered to forfeit six houses in Kentucky and Florida, a dozen financial accounts, seven vehicles and cash in lieu of five pieces of property to repay former clients.