Fraud Inquiry Looks at Lawyers in Diet-Drug Case
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 22 W. L. Carter knew there was something fishy going on when he went to his lawyers office a few years ago to pick up his settlement check for the heart damage he had sustained from taking the diet drug combination fen-phen.
W. L. Carter, a fen-phen plaintiff, said he was angry about how he had been treated. The greed got the best of them, he said of his lawyers.
The check was, for starters, much smaller than he had expected. And his own lawyers threatened to retaliate against him if he ever told anyone, including his family, how much he had been paid. You will be fined $100,000, you will go to jail and you will be sued, Mr. Carter recalled them saying.
