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Owner of a Funeral house in Colorado He received the maximum prison sentence after he was found guilty of reducing almost 190 bodies in a busy building and sending family false ashes instead of their loved ones.
Jon Hallford, the owner return to the funeral funeral on Friday was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for cheating customers and deceived the federal government of almost $ 900,000 in COVID-19 help. He admitted guilt for conspiracies that he committed wire fraud at the Federal Court last year.
Separate, Hallford confessed to the blame By 191. The Point of Breach of Breach in the State Court and will be sentenced in August.
During the hearing on Friday, the Federal Prosecutors asked for a 15-year sentence, while Hallford’s lawyer was looking for 10 years.
Jon Hallford, the owner return to the funeral burial in nature, was convicted of cheating customers and crossing the federal government of almost $ 900,000 in COVID-19 help. (Office of Muskogee County Sheriff)
Judge Nina Wang said that despite the case that focuses only on unique charges of fraud, circumstances and the scope of hallford crimes, as well as emotional impact on families, justified the maximum sentence.
“This is not an ordinary case of fraud,” she said.
In front of the resolution, Hallford told the judge that he opened the funeral home to a positive impact on the lives of people before “everything completely kicked out of control, especially me.”
“I’m so deeply sorry for my actions,” he said. “I still hate because of what I did.”
Hallford and his wife, Carie, are charged with storing the body between 2019. and 2023. years and send families false ash. Investigators found the bodies in 2023. They are given to each other across the squat, the building for retirement errors in Colorado.
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Investigators could not move into some rooms because the bodies were piled so tall and in various states of decay. The FBI agents had to put the planks so they could walk above the liquid.
Many families learned after the discovery that their loved ones were not cremated and that they were ashes that were false. In two cases, the wrong body was buried.
Jon Hallford received the maximum possible penalty in a prison of 20 years. (AP)
Some cousins had nightmares, others fought guilty and at least wondered about their soul of their loved one.
The victim of Colton Sperry spoke during Friday and said the judge of his grandmother, who said his second mother and died in 2019. years, according to the assigned press.
Her body was in return to the nature building for four years until the discovery, which Sperry said it pushed him into depression.
He said he told his parents at the time, “If I die, I could meet my grandmother in heaven and talk to her again.” In the end it was taken to the hospital Mental Health Check, which led to therapy and emotional support dog.
“I miss my grandmother so much,” Judge said in tears.
The Federal Prosecutors also accused Halfords of Pandemic Assistance, cash and consumption and infinites in value over $ 120,000 in combination, as well as $ 31,000 cryptocurlenci, luxury objects, such as Waling Gucci and Tiffany and CO.
Jon Hallford and his wife, Carie, are charged with storing the body between 2019. and 2023. years and send families false ash. (AP)
Another victim, Derrick Johnson, said the judge that he crossed 3,000 miles to testify about how his mother was thrown on the sea of death, “Ap.
“I’m lying awake wonder, was she naked? Was she that she was placed on top of others like a tree?” Johnson said.
“While the bodies rotten in secret, (Hallfords) lived, laughed and they entered,” he added. “Money on cremating my mom probably helped to pay a cocktail, a day in Spa, a flight first.”
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It’s scheduled to schedule Carie Hallford trial In the federal case in September, in the same month as the next hearing in the state case in which he was also charged with 191 points cloth cloth.
The associated press has contributed to this report.
