Imagine having made enough on a case to have to repay $ 62 Million! FromLaw Com:
"Three attorneys accused of bilking their clients in a diet drug settlement must repay at least $62.1 million in settlement funds and interest, a Kentucky judge ruled Friday.
Special Judge William Wehr ordered William J. Gallion, 56, Shirley A. Cunningham Jr., 52, and Melbourne Mills Jr., 76, to repay $42 million taken from the settlement and $20.1 million in interest. Wehr said the interest was 8 percent over the six years the attorneys had the funds.
The attorneys are being sued by about 400 former clients who claim the lawyers took too much money as part of a $200 million fen-phen settlement.
Gallion and Cunningham own a 20 percent stake in Curlin, who won the second leg of the Triple Crown in May.
A federal grand jury indicted the attorneys last month, charging them with conspiring to commit wire fraud in representing more than 400 people in a lawsuit over the diet drug. The lawyers, who were temporarily suspended from practicing law by the Kentucky Bar Association, have pleaded not guilty. Federal prosecutors want the lawyers to forfeit any assets they have to pay restitution to their former clients. "