I previously blogged the strange case at Florida A&M Law School, which named as the holder of a $1.75m endowed chair (paying $100k annually) the donor (attorney Shirley Cunningham Jr.) for whom the chair was named in recognition of his $1m gift (which triggered a $750,000 matching gift from the state).  The Associated Press updates the story in Law School Scandal Could Surface at Lawyers’ Fen-Phen Trial, by Brett Barrouquere:

A $1 million endowed chair at Florida A&M Law school could become central to the trial of three Kentucky lawyers on wire fraud charges that they bilked clients out of millions in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen. …

Cunningham gave the money to Florida A&M in January 2002 with the condition that the school grant him the position at a $100,000-a-year salary. The school fired Cunningham in 2005 after interim FAMU president Castell Bryant said there was no evidence Cunningham had done any work at the law school.