Tuesday, August 18, 2009

2 attorneys get decades in prison, ordered to pay $127 million to victims in diet drug fraud

Posted by Plus Master at 9:08 AM
 

Two former attorneys have been sentenced to decades in federal prison and ordered to pay $127 million in restitution for defrauding hundreds of clients in a diet-drug settlement.

U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves also on Monday ordered 58-year-old William Gallion and 54-year-old Shirley Cunningham Jr. each to pay a $30 million forfeiture.

Gallion was sentenced to 25 years and Cunningham to 20.

Read the full story here on the StarTribune website.
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