Former Chelsea Selectwoman Carole Swan and her husband made a lot of money but didn’t pay taxes from 2006 to 2010, according to testimony on day 3 of her fraud trial.

Robert Drisko testifies former selectwoman charged with fraud “would work outside (of board meetings) to get her own way.”

On first the day of Carole Swan’s trial, some Chelsea residents said they would like to see her and her husband punished, while others said they’re withholding judgment until a jury reaches a verdict.

Carole Swan never meant to defraud anyone; she was just doing what she had to do to survive in an abusive marriage, her lawyer told the jury Monday, the first day of Swan’s fraud trial.

Carole and Marshall Swan, a Chelsea couple accused together and separately of defrauding the federal government, will have separate trials, a judge has ruled.

Defense attorneys for former Chelsea Selectwoman Carole Swan say that she was a battered wife, acting under her husband’s direction when she defrauded the government.

The trial of former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan and her husband, Marshall Swan, on federal fraud charges has been specially set for July 8 in Bangor.

Carole Swan is scheduled for trial on fraud and extortion charges in five weeks now that a federal judge has upheld rulings that refuse to suppress the former Chelsea selectwoman’s statements to investigators.

Carole Swan, the former Chelsea selectwoman facing federal extortion and tax fraud charges, had been receiving around $50,000 annually from federal workers compensation, according to documents obtained by the Kennebec Journal through a public records request.

A federal judge has rejected former Chelsea selectwoman’s Carole Swan’s efforts to keep her admissions to deputies out of her upcoming fraud trial.