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The record includes 28 promissory notes in varying amounts
totaling in excess of the amounts of income charged to petitioner
in the statutory notice, dated from June 30, 1987, through
June 10, 1988, with stated interest of 10 percent, "To be paid
at the time the Estate of Zelda Willey Putman is closed", signed
by petitioner in connection with purported loans to petitioner
from the estate. Petitioner signed the notes and made the
purported loans to himself without the knowledge or consent
of any of the beneficiaries of the Putman estate. Petitioner
pledged no collateral to secure any of the alleged loans or any
of the other payments he made to himself from the estate.
On September 13, 1989, following pleas of nolo contendere,
petitioner was convicted on three counts of grand theft in the
Circuit Court of Polk County, Florida. In addition to receiving
a prison sentence, petitioner was ordered to pay restitution in
the amount of $516,091 to the estate of Mrs. Putman and $48,978
to Mr. Putman. In compliance with the judgment and order of
probation, petitioner for a period of 5 years has made timely
monthly payments in the amount of $230 per month toward
restitution to the Putman estate. In 1990, the Circuit Court of
Polk County entered a civil judgment against petitioner in favor
of each of the Putmans individually in an aggregate amount,
including treble damages, substantially in excess of the Circuit
Court's restitution order in the criminal proceeding, with
interest at 12 percent from July 1, 1988. In 1990, Petitioner
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