Diet-Drug Lawyers’ Convictions for Fund Theft Upheld
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Two disbarred Kentucky lawyers sentenced to prison for stealing from a $200 million fen-phen diet-drug settlement fund failed to persuade a federal appeals court to reverse their convictions.
“The evidence of the defendants’ guilt in this case was overwhelming,” the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said today in upholding the 2009 convictions and sentences of William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr.