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            were used to pay various expenses, including credit card bills,                                
            doctors' bills, car payments, groceries, traveler's checks for                                 
            the honeymoon, and legal expenses for a business in which                                      
            petitioner was involved.                                                                       
                  On September 25, 1989, a one-count information was filed in                              
            the Circuit Court of Escambia County, Florida, charging                                        
            petitioner with theft of property valued at over $100,000.  The                                
            charges stemmed from petitioner's misappropriation of Zebrowski                                
            funds.  Also on September 25, 1989, a three-count information was                              
            filed charging petitioner with check forgery, uttering forged                                  
            instruments, and theft of property valued between $300 and                                     
            $20,000.  This information related to petitioner's forgery of a                                
            check in the amount of $5,695 made payable to Sullivan.  Both                                  
            informations related to petitioner's activities between                                        
            January 1, 1988, and March 31, 1989.  The charges against                                      
            petitioner carried a possible jail sentence of over 30 years.                                  
            All charges against petitioner were consolidated for trial.  The                               
            jury returned verdicts of guilty on all counts.  On April 11,                                  
            1990, the court entered its judgment and sentence in petitioner's                              
            case.  Petitioner was placed on probation for 20 years, directed                               
            to perform 50 hours of community service for each year of                                      
            probation, and ordered to pay court costs of $284.50 and to pay                                
            restitution of $446,571.  Zebrowski subsequently filed a civil                                 
            suit seeking restitution relating to petitioner's criminal                                     






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