MAINE
Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted Nov. 02, 2015
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge has denied a Freeport man a new trial and refused to reduce a $14.5 million judgment against him, but he did drop an $8,000 fine for contempt.
U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock on Friday also granted a motion to force Paul Kendrick, 66, to pay pre- and post-conviction interest on the damages granted by a jury in July after a 13-day defamation trial in federal court in Portland.
On Saturday, Haitian authorities reportedly had issued an arrest warrant for Michael Geilenfeld, a former Catholic brother who, along with an affiliated nonprofit, Hearts with Haiti, successfully sued Kendrick for defamation.
Police in Port-au-Prince were searching for Geilenfeld as part of an investigation into new allegations of child sex abuse, according to the Associated Press.
As of 6 p.m. Monday, no media outlets had reported that Geilenfeld had been located and arrested.
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