Manchins dismiss brotherly lawsuit

Dr. John Manchin agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against his brothers, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and Roch Manchin, over a $1.7 million loan that John claimed he made to his brothers decades ago that was never repaid. It involved keeping Mancin Carpet Center afloat.

Each side will pay its own legal fees.

The brothers’ response to the lawsuit by their osteopathic doctor sibling was that they and the family bailed John out of his financial troubles in the 1980s and 1990s and that John is having financial trouble because of a “financially reckless son,” John Manchin III, who controls his father’s economic circumstances.

To read the earlier Monongah High Alumni blog article on the lawsuit in October 2014, click on http://jo4wvu.blogspot.com/search?q=manchin+lawsuit