not2cleverRed
Obvious Observer
Psst! Check the date.The answer is that you will need a lawyer. You should have had one the moment you were served the papers. They would have told you how to handle continuance or appearance that would have avoided you being locked up as a fugitive.
I'm only slightly surprised by the high retainer. This is a felony and there's going to be a lot of legal work even before the thing gets to trial.
Hopefully a lawyer can challenge the indictment or probable cause in that there was no intent to decieve. You've not actually given the pertinent details on your case (just your personal drama), but I can bet the STATE (and understand at this point it is not "that customer" vs. you at this point, but the Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. you) is going to argue that you took money via ebay for stuff you never intended to deliver.
Some idiot spammer has been resurrecting these old threads in an effort to redirect traffic to his own website.