<p class="p1">A 32-year-old Zwolle woman pleaded no contest to a racketeering charge Thursday in state district court.</p><p class="p1">Krystal Amber Gaudet, who will be sentenced March 8, could receive up to 50 years in prison. But prosecutors asked that the penalty be capped at 10 years.</p><p class="p1">Gaudet asked Judge Mike Canaday if she could be released on bond so she could take care of some personal matters.</p><p class="p1">“I can’t do that,” Canaday said. “This is a serious charge and you also have charges pending in Florida.”</p><p class="p1">Prosecutor Hugo Holland said Gaudet, along with a Sulphur man, his brother, and his father, were affiliated with local businesses Club Vixen and Club Cabaret.</p><p class="p1">“In 2016 and 2017, they ran unauthorized credit card charges to customers at those businesses, bilking them out of $300,000,” Holland said.</p><p class="p1">Gaudet has been in jail since being arrested in August. Canaday ordered her held without bond.</p>