A Hancock man has been found guilty of theft for embezzling $225,000 from a former U.S. Senate candidate.

Matthew T. McDonald, 45, worked for Max Linn on Linn’s two U.S. Senate campaigns in Maine before Linn died in 2021 at his home in Bar Harbor. Before he died, Linn asked McDonald to invest the funds in cryptocurrency on his behalf.

McDonald never did, though, and when Linn asked for it back, McDonald accused Linn of pointing a gun at him in a dispute over the money and went to court to seek a restraining order against the former Senate candidate. McDonald claimed that Linn instead wanted to use the funds to buy drugs from Indonesia that were being touted as COVID-19 cures, but Linn denied the accusations.

McDonald later told police he liquidated the cryptocurrency by investing

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