August 27, 2018 — National Fish & Seafood and Kathleen A. Scanlon, the former employee the seafood processor is suing for allegedly stealing trade secrets for her new employer, had appeared to be heading for a settlement.
Now, not so much.
The Gloucester-based seafood processor last week amended its complaint against Scanlon, its former head of research and development and quality assurance, and her new employer, Tampa Bay Fisheries, by adding more defendants and more details of the alleged conspiracy and corporate theft.
The revised lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, now levies charges against more executives from Tampa Bay Fisheries and its affiliates — including company President Robert Paterson, information technologies director Mark Marsh and Mark Pandolfo. The revised complaint also includes the John Doe named as a defendant in the original lawsuit.
Pandolfo, a vice president of sales at Tampa Bay Fisheries’ Kitchens Seafood affiliate, is a former NFS employee and the son of Richard Pandolfo, a former NFS vice president for sales who was convicted last year of wire fraud and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service in a scheme with other NFS executives.