On the University of Cincinnati board of trustees sits Stanley Chesley. His term isn’t up until 2018.
Chesley negotiated a settlement of $200 million for 431 people in Boone County, Ky., that were sickened by the diet drug.
Yet almost half of that $200 million settlement went to Chesley and his co-counsels with the lawsuit — William Gallion, Shirley Cunningham, Jr. and Melbourne Mills, Jr. — for lawyer fees. The lawyer fees were approved by former Boone County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Bamberger in a “clandestine meeting” with the attorneys in February 2002 — a meeting that excluded the lawyer’s clients.
From the report recommending Chesley’s disbarment: “The greed evidenced by the plaintiff’s attorneys in this case is astounding.”
But, you know, just a bunch o’ Kentucky hicks; they’ll never figure it out…
The university can’t get rid of Chesley; only the governor can.
February 26th, 2011 at 4:14PM
Not so easy to oust members of self-perpetuating boards either, and I don’t know how you get rid of popularly elected trustees … at least a governor can move expeditiously, and may feel some pressure to act. I wouldn’t say this is the main thing wrong with an appointed board.
February 26th, 2011 at 4:29PM
Mr Punch: I meant to say somewhere in the post that I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no good way to constitute a university board of trustees.
June 19th, 2011 at 11:35AM
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