At a hearing on May 4, Lincoln County Superior Court in Wiscasset ordered a former Boothbay attorney to pay $55,632 in restitution resulting from his theft conviction last year.
Franklin Poe, 55, did not attend the hearing.
“Mr. Poe is profoundly depressed,” said his attorney, Justin Andrus. “I think his absence is a reflection of that depression, not of his being obstinate.”
Poe pleaded guilty on Sept. 7 to theft in excess of $10,000, the highest level of theft in Maine law, and to the misuse of property entrusted to him.
During that hearing, Justice Andrew Horton sentenced Poe to four years in prison with all but 15 months suspended and three years probation. As of the restitution hearing, Poe has served all of his jail time.
Poe was the trustee of the Josephine Davis Day Revocable Trust from 1995 to Jan. 2, 2008. During that time, he allegedly wrote himself substantial checks from the trust funds and failed to provide adequate explanation of the miscellaneous expenses he was charging, Assistant Attorney General Leanne Robbin said.
“It’s typical elderly fraud,” Robbin said at Poe’s sentencing.
