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account that it maintained for Sandbar Wholesale Trust. The
January 28, 1997 notice indicated that Ms. Beamon had made a
claim for unemployment compensation and that there was a poten-
tial liability for unemployment insurance benefit charges as a
result of that claim.
On February 3, 1997, Mr. Barmes wrote the following state-
ment, which he signed as general manager, on the bottom of a copy
of the January 28, 1997 notice: “Sandbar Wholesale Trust did not
open an account with Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
Sandbar Wholesale Trust does not now [have] or ever have [sic]
had employees”.
On March 3, 1997, the Department of Workforce Development
issued another notice (March 3, 1997 notice) addressed to “Sand-
bar Wholesale Trust, Barbara’s Gift Shop, 120 Main Street,
Vincennes, IN 47591". That notice showed the same Department of
Workforce Development employer account number for Sandbar Whole-
sale Trust as shown on the January 28, 1997 notice. The March 3,
1997 notice indicated that Ms. Beamon had made a claim for
unemployment compensation and that there was a potential liabil-
ity for unemployment insurance benefit charges as a result of
that claim.
At the bottom of a copy of the March 3, 1997 notice, on
March 6, 1997, Susan Thomas Barmes signed the following typed
statement as trustee and “without prejudice”: “Sandbar Wholesale
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