Blamed in plundering of diet-drug settlement
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Andrew Wolfson
He was dubbed the “master of disaster” for winning billions of dollars for victims of hotel fires, toxic spills, airplane crashes and defective products.
But now Stan Chesley, the lawyer who hosted presidents at his Cincinnati mansion, has been disbarred by the Kentucky Supreme Court for his role in Kentucky’s fen-phen diet-drug scandal — in all likelihood ending his career.
Although Chesley, 76, is also licensed in Ohio, it is virtually automatic he will be disbarred there as well; the Ohio Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel has said no Ohio lawyer has ever been permanently disbarred in another state and not been disbarred in Ohio as well.
“My clients will be thrilled,” said Angela Ford, a Lexington lawyer later hired by plaintiffs in the diet-drug case. “They are one step closer to the end” of the case.
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