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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\"></p>           CHARLESTON &ndash; A Braxton County attorney will remain a free man after admitting to embezzling nearly $75,000 from a trust account he was appointed to oversee.<br /><br />Thomas J. Drake on Sept. 13 was indicted via information on a single charge of embezzlement.  According to the indictment, Drake converted $70,798.57 belonging to the ATS Settlement Trust between July 2009 and August 2011.<br /><br />No details are provided about the trust, and when Drake was made its trustee.  The only other information available is that Drake's embezzlement of the funds took place in Elkview.<br /><br />In exchange for agreeing to plead guilty, Assistant Kanawha County Prosecutor Rob Schulenburg offered to recommend Drake get probation for a term to be determined by Judge James C. Stucky.  Also, as a condition of his probation, Drake was to make court-ordered restitution.<br /><br />As of presstime, Stucky's sentencing order was not available. According to his attorney William C. Forbes, Stucky placed Drake on two years probation.<br /><br />The amount of restitution, Forbes said, has yet to be recommended by the probation office.<br /><br />According to the state Bar's Web site, Drake, 36, is a sole practitioner in Gassaway.  He was admitted to the Bar on Sept. 26, 2000.<br /><br /><em>Kanawha Circuit Court case number 12-F-491</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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