By Jim Warren
jwarren@herald-leader.com
Fen-phen lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Allen Cunningham Jr. have been permanently disbarred from legal practice by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Shirley Cunningham Jr. (left), William Gallion (right)
The court entered orders Thursday afternoon disbarring both attorneys and, under terms of those orders, neither man can ever apply for reinstatement to the Kentucky Bar.
According to the orders, both Cunningham and Gallion had filed motions with the high court asking that they be disbarred.
And, under terms of the orders, both Gallion and Cunningham essentially admitted many of the ethical violations that federal prosecutors have alleged in an on-going case against them involving their handling of a $200-million fen-phen settlement.
Gallion, Cunningham and another attorney, Melborne Mills Jr., were tried on criminal mail fraud charges in federal court this summer. A federal jury at Covington acquitted Mills, but could not reach a verdict in the cases of Cunningham and Gallion.
They are scheduled for a retrial in federal court at Frankfort early next year.
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Glad to see that they finally got disbarred
These two won’t be able to take any more money from
people. Guess they know they are finally going to get
what is comming to them. They know the Juors that will
take on the Trail in Feb. 09 in Frankfort mean business.
Gallion is like teflon, nothing sticks, he has 100 million in a bank somewhere, he will be fine.
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I would not be able to sat on a jury for these two Attorneys, reason being,I want to know what juror can find these men guilty?since earlier a Attorney charged in the same case was acquitted. It was so unfair for the legal system to do this.It must be personal, that’s the way it rolls in KY . Maybe there are still some honest people left in Frankfort,that feel the same way I feel.