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This is what’s wrong with having trustees appointed by the Governor.

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.

Margaret Soltan, February 26, 2011 12:34PM
Posted in: trustees trashing the place

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4 Responses to “This is what’s wrong with having trustees appointed by the Governor.”

  1. Mr Punch Says:

    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.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    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.

  3. University Diaries » The Treacherous Logic of the Trustee Says:

    […] has been following for awhile, involves veteran University of Cincinnati trustee Stanley Chesley. Here’s the background on this attorney’s astounding greed and […]

  4. University Diaries » Well, he did what he could. Says:

    […] as Chesney’s multiple recent disbarments have to do with him ripping off the little guy for millions and millions of dollars in profit for himself, the mayor’s defense seems a bit […]

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