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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A lawyer who represented people injured by the diet drug fen-phen should be disbarred for violating ethics rules, a Kentucky hearing officer has recommended.
COVINGTON, Ky., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Two disbarred lawyers convicted of defrauding clients in Kentucky's $200 million fen-phen settlement must serve long prison sentences, a judge has ruled.
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 8 (UPI) -- Lawyers say a Kentucky court's forfeiture order will make it easier to collect millions of dollars illegally diverted by lawyers in a massive fen-phen case.
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 2 (UPI) -- Attorneys William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. defrauded their clients in a diet-drug case out of $94.6 million, an assistant U.S. attorney alleges.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. government will try again to convict two former lawyers accused of taking millions of dollars from their clients in a fen-phen diet drug case.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A federal judge has denied a request to put off the retrial of two attorneys accused of plotting to defraud clients in Kentucky's fen-phen diet-drug case.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Two Kentucky lawyers who allegedly defrauded clients in a settlement over the diet drug phen-fen face new federal charges of wire fraud.
COVINGTON, Ky., July 3 (UPI) -- A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the trial of two lawyers accused of taking too much money out of Kentucky's $200 million fen-phen lawsuit settlement.
COVINGTON, Ky., June 24 (UPI) -- A jury began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of three Kentucky lawyers charged with defrauding plaintiffs suing over the diet drug fen-phen.
LEXINGTON, Ky., May 15 (UPI) -- A Kentucky lawyer involved in a fen-phen settlement case said he was advised to tell clients they were entitled to less money than court documents indicated.