A Brandon woman was federally indicted on a wire fraud charge that alleges she issued company checks from a local trucking business to herself.
Sheila Verbrugge, 50, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 16 wire fraud charges. She pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
According to the indictment, Verbrugge is accused of using her position as the billing and payroll clerk for Blachowske Truck Line, Inc. to divert money into her own account.
Verbrugge managed the company's T-Chek account, which is used to pay for job-related expenses for the truck drivers, such as fuel and truck maintenance, according to a release from U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota Ron Parsons. Each week, T-Chek emailed an invoice to the company for the week's charges. Verbrugge would then pay that invoice.
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Verbrugge is accused of issuing T-Check payments to her personal bank account and altered the weekly report on multiple occasions between January 2010 and April 2020. She would delete her name and location and replace it with names of truck drivers and locations associated with those drivers, according to the release.
The amount of money thought to have been diverted from the company was not in the indictment.
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