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Midcoast Contractor Indicted For Allegedly Racking Up Contracts, Doing 'Minimal' Or No Work

A grand jury in Knox County has indicted the owner of a former midcoast contracting business for theft by deception.

According to the indictment, 56-year-old Malcolm Stewart allegedly led 57 consumers to pay more than $400,000 for home construction projects that he knew he wasn’t able to complete.

The indictment says in many of the cases, Stewart did no work, or performed “only a minimal amount of substandard work.”

The Maine Attorney General’s office says Stewart closed down the business two years ago and left Maine for South Carolina.

A court issued a warrant for Stewart’s arrest.