posted 04-07-2017 01:05 PM               

Bill Anders, an Apollo 8 astronaut, settled in Anacortes after a career with NASA and in private industry that included a stint as CEO of General Dynamics. The Anders, whose businesses include Apogee Flight Inc., present a collection of warbirds through the museum.

Coffelt worked as a bookkeeper for the Anders for more than a decade. Prosecutors claims she began stealing from them sometime after she was hired in 2003 and continued the thefts until they were discovered in 2015.

Coffelt, who owned Moon Glow Arts and Crafts in Eastsound, is alleged to have stolen from Apogee accounts while also running up charges on company credit cards.

...According to charging papers, Coffelt charged more than 1,500 personal Amazon orders to the Anders. Prosecutors say she went so far as to take out a credit card in Bill Anders’ name, and regularly transferred large sums of money out of accounts belonging to the Anders into her own.

posted 04-11-2017 06:06 PM               

In a plea agreement, Coffelt admitted she used money from her employers' accounts to pay the expenses of her business, as well as other expenses, such as trips for her family, her mortgage, her taxes and more than $30,000 in fuel charges.