Overview
- A federal judge in Denver on March 16 sentenced Carie Hallford to 18 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $1,070,413.74 in restitution.
- Hallford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud tied to $882,300 in SBA pandemic loans that prosecutors say the couple spent on personal luxuries.
- Prosecutors say she and ex-husband Jon Hallford failed to cremate or bury at least 190 bodies from 2019 to 2023, took more than $130,000 from families, and sometimes provided urns filled with dry concrete.
- Her federal term will be served at the same time as a state sentence to be imposed April 24, where she faces 25 to 35 years for nearly 200 counts of abuse of a corpse.
- Jon Hallford previously received 20 years in the federal case and 40 years in the state case under separate sentences.