SALINE CO. – Fewer and fewer people are becoming surprised at the ongoing legal problems of “Harrisburg resident” Dan Moutria, 52.
Moutria, who landed in Harrisburg a couple of years ago from Madison County after taking up with a local wealthy woman, Nanette Franks (ex of banker Tom Franks), as is his habit, is at least no longer sitting in Saline County Detention, having posted $8,000 on a pair of Madison County felonies with which he was charged in October of 2015.
Now, Moutria’s inability to pay his bills (as evidenced by a massive $60,000 judgment in Madison County a few years back, as well as a much smaller judgment in Saline last April) is catching up to him again…and with the severity of the Madison County charges, a local dentist may never see a dime for work he did on Moutria’s mouth.
Dr. D. Michael Cook, via his attorney, former assistant state’s attorney Amanda B. Moore, filed suit against Moutria on January 14, stating that Moutria owes $615 for services rendered by Cook in April of 2014 (at a time when Franks was ostensibly his sugar momma).
Cook is getting in line; there is no record that Moutria has made any kind of payment on the judgment in Madison County, nor on the one in Saline from last year.
Now, with Moutria facing the criminal charges in Madison, just another element of “no one will ever see their money” – including the person he allegedly filched it from in the criminal case – is emerging.
According to available information, Moutria is charged with a count of Financial Exploitation of an Elderly Person/Person with a Disability, and four separate counts of Forgery (for signing someone else’s checks). Not much has been published in Madison on the case, and there are no online court records for that county, so it’s unclear exactly who he is alleged to have done this to, but sources close to Moutria have opined that it may have been his parents or another close relative, possibly in an attempt to pay on some of his debts, since a lawsuit against Knapp Oil (propane provider for Nanette Franks) is dragging through court in Saline. Moutria sued Knapp after an explosion of a hot water tank at Franks’ house that he was trying to light the pilot on. Naturally, he’s blaming the propane company instead of taking his lumps for doing something generally considered routine, but that a true schleprock will screw up as a matter of course.
Moore, on behalf of Cook, had been set to show up in court on a first appearance in the Small Claims case on February 8; however, no records were available to update as of press time.