A fake ashes were imprisoned for 20 years.
John Holford, the co -owner to return to Nature Fairral Home in southern Colorado, was sentenced to the Federal Court on Friday.
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The 44 -year -old acknowledged that he was guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud due to a diagram that shocked the nation.
Acknowledged customers who raised Wilzon approximately $ 900,000 in Covid-19 relief boxes for troubled companies-which highlights money on luxury shopping periods, laser sculpting, cheerful cars and cryptocurrencies.
His punishment is more than five years more than the prosecutors requested, and to double what his lawyer paid.
“I am very sorry for my actions,” Halford told the judge.
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“I still hate myself for what I did.”
He added that he opened the funeral home in the hope of “making a positive impact on people's lives,” but he admitted: “Then everything was completely out of control, especially I am.”
Corporate accumulation “like wood'
Halford and his wife, Carrie Halford, who participated in the funeral home, ran a horrific fraud between 2019 and 2023.
The investigators were first alerted in October last year when the neighbors in Penrose, a small town of two hours south of Denver, complained of an unpleasant smell.
The policemen who have discovered the stomach-at least 190 bodies stacked on each other in various cases of decay, disintegrated badly so that the FBI agents had to place plates above sludge to move in the rooms.
Some of the bodies were left there for years, including Jeddah, Colon Spery, who died in 2019.
In the court on Friday, the young boy told the judge that he fell into a deep depression when he discovered this.
Tell his parents at the time: “If she also dies, I can meet my grandmother in heaven and talk to her again.”
His father later rushed to the hospital to examine mental health, which led to treatment and an emotional support dog.
Another victim, Derek Johnson, traveled about 3000 miles to tell the court how his mother was thrown into a sea of death.
“I wake up, wondering: Was she naked? Was it stacked above others like wood?” He said.
While the bodies were secretly rot, [the Hallfords] They lived, laughed and had dinner.
“Mother's bodies are likely to help pay the costs of a cocktail, a day in the spa, a first -class trip.”
Even two families buried the wrong bodies after sending a jar of dust that have no value – destroyed relatives that they have destroyed their ability to be sad.
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Luxurious spending
Federal Public Prosecutors revealed that Halfords has drained the assistance of the epidemic and customer money to finance a luxury lifestyle.
They expelled GMC Yukon and Infiniti with a value of more than $ 120,000, and they cut Gucci and Tiffany jewelry, spent $ 31,000 on the cryptocurrency, and paid for laser body sculptors.
The referee also included John Halford to pay more than a million dollars as compensation – as $ 193,000 was divided between the families of the victims and the rest into small business administration.
Halford will spend his 20 -year -old term with a government prison sentence in August, after he admitted that he was guilty of 191 charges of abuse of bodies and hundreds of other government charges, including forgery and money laundering.
Meanwhile, his wife, Carrie, withdrew her guilt in the federal case earlier this year and will now go to trial in September.
It also faces 191 charges of abuse of corpses in the state's case.
The couple was arrested in Oklahoma last November after going to run.
By that time, the decomposing funeral house has already been demolished.
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