Five indicted for embezzling from Trident

Five people have been indicted on charges of embezzling almost a half-million dollars from the Trident Seafoods plant in Kodiak. U.S. Attorney Aunnie Steward says the nearly USD 500,000 discrepancy was discovered some time after bookkeeper Isa Wolfe was fired two years ago.

“She’d been there a very long time, and actually was there years before the embezzlement started," Steward said. "And when she was terminated the folks that came in to take over discovered that a lot of fraudulent accounting had been going on for quite some time.”

The U.S. Attorney’s office alleges that Wolfe wrote 52 checks from the Trident Seafoods account between January 2008 and August 2010 to four friends and the underage son of one of them. Also indicted were Jeremy Smith and Jamie Fathke of Kodiak, Anne Wilson of Kent, Washington, and Valerie Olivares of Corpus Christi, Texas.?

Steward says Wolfe was taken into custody on Friday and Smith was already jailed on unrelated charges and turned over to federal custody. The two are scheduled to be arraigned this (Monday) afternoon in Anchorage federal court. No arraignment date was announced for Wilson and Olivares. Fathke has not yet been taken into custody.

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