BANGOR (AP) — A former town official from Chelsea who was convicted last week of filing false income tax returns and making false statements to get federal workers’ compensation faces another trial next month.
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock on Wednesday set a Sept. 4 trial date for Carole Swan on extortion charges. The Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/12I5JyO ) reported the judge rejected a request to postpone the trial until October.
Swan is charged with extorting money from a man who had plowing and salting contracts with Chelsea.
Prosecutors in her previous trial said she misstated income she received through Marshall Swan Construction, a company Swan owns with her estranged husband, and did not properly report income she received through a harness racing business managed by her brother in Ohio.
She was acquitted of three fraud charges.
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