At least two retailers who sold luxury goods to the former Koss Corp. executive who embezzled $34 million from the company are now petitioning the federal court for the return of items that she didn't pay for.

Documents filed in court in Milwaukee Monday list more than $200,000 worth of body jewelry the retailers say they had sent to Sujata "Sue" Sachdeva, former vice president of finance at Koss, for her consideration. The luxury retailers said they regularly sent or delivered items to Sachdeva for inspection. She would decide which items to purchase and return the rest, they said in court documents.

The petitions are part of the legal process leading up to the auction of more than 22,000 items that were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation when Sachdeva was arrested on Dec. 21, 2009. The FBI gathered items from Sachdeva's Mequon home as well as from rented storage space.

The petitions filed Monday are from Karat 22, a Houston jeweler seeking the return of $152,000 worth of jewelry, and Inna Chatokhine, operator of a small boutique in northern Illinois, who lists about $71,000 worth of jewelry. Chatokhine said in her petition that she visited Sachdeva at her home on Dec. 19 and left the items with her.

The Texas auction firm that is under contract with the government to perform the auction must search through the thousands of seized items to locate merchandise that has been named in claims from third parties who say they own the pieces. The auction cannot take place until this claim process is completed the vast collections of body jewelry: banana barbells, circular barbells, titanium skin divers, expander plugs and more and more.

Sachdeva is scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman's court on Nov. 18.