Fen-Phen Victims' Horse Has Come In

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

Wallace Carter and Charlene Horn are among more than 400 Fen-phen victims in the heart of Kentucky horse country. Together, they sued the drug's maker, and shared in a $200 million-settlement, and their story should've ended there.

But it didn't.

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It was bad enough that Fen-phen gave them permanent heart damage, but then their own attorneys - William Gallion, Shirley Cunningham and Melbourne Mills - ran off with most of the money.

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But real twist came when, even after they were already being sued, two of the lawyers bought an unknown colt named Curlin. And if you know anything about racing, you already know where this is going… At last year's Preakness, like in a fairy tale, Curlin came from nowhere to win.

The proud attorneys, Gallion and Cunningham, were in the winner's circle. And when the cheated Fen-phen victims saw their photos in the Kentucky papers, they decided to do something drastic: claim a share of the horse, now worth tens of millions of dollars.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/18/eveningnews/main3842859.shtml

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Scoundrels. Hope these attorneys get convicted and get a nice long jail sentence!

[peacetalksforall]

1. What is it about these decade 2000 people with all the arrogance - where is that

arrogance coming from - they think they can get away with all these crimes? It's like a rampage of crime against little people and taxpayers.

[fed-up]

2. they are in jail-time to get insurance on the horse!-sad update-25 dead from fen-phen

"Not to be lost in this horse tale is the human toll. In just this one group of 440 Kentucky plaintiffs, 25 have now died of heart problems believed related to the Fen-phen diet drug.

Since the Preakness, the lawyers have been indicted on criminal charges and are in jail awaiting trial. They've been ordered to pay back more than $64 million. And the Fen-phen victims? They got a stake in Curlin. "

[TygrBright]

3. T-shirt seen at Pimlico: "I won a lawsuit and all I got was 1/400th of this horse?" n/t

[alfredo]

4. They have been local figures here in Lexington Ky. Mills is one of those

lawyers that advertise on TV promising big payoffs (ambulance chaser). Cunningham was a crooked politician, Gallion, I know little about except he had some sexy daughters.