The former owner and president of a Jasper County office supply company waived the formal readin gof her indictment and pleaded not guilty this morning to a charge of willful failure to pay federal taxes.
The trial date for Karen Sue Lauridsen, 60, Joplin, has been scheduled for 9 a.m. June 6 in U. S. District Court in Springfield.
The indictment, which was unsealed April 19, alleges Lauridsen stopped paying payroll taxes for her company in 2011 and spent tens of thousands of dollars gambling in casinos in several states. The company was located in Carthage between 2003 and 2016 when it moved to Joplin.
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