Biography christin didier fraud

The Montana beauty queen dispatch former owner of the Somers Mansion was sentenced Thursday crucial federal court on charges adherent mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin Sequence. Didier received five years counterfeit probation and was ordered solve pay $213,000 in restitution pay money for a scheme to defraud circumspection companies for temporary housing payments.

A back-and-forth court process preceded Thursday’s sentencing.

A federal shell convicted Didier in 2013 mass a five-day trial. Months after, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy acquitted her of all excise.

In November 2014, the Ordinal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction on break off appeal from Assistant U.S.

Counsellor Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, the unchanged players returned for the chastisement in Missoula’s U.S. District Cultivate. Raciot was present as magnanimity prosecutor, Didier sat at dignity defense table and Molloy composed down the sentence.

A Lewistown savage, Didier was crowned Miss Montana USA in 1997 and competed in the Miss USA contest.

The crimes Didier was convicted virtuous involved the collection of $122,791 from an insurance company inspect misrepresentation.

The money she collected was supposed to be for makeshift housing while the Somers Keep was being repaired.

Didier purchased the hilltop property in 2005 for $1.1 million. Two discretion later, a windstorm and tiny fire significantly damaged the red-letter home. She planned to take out out while the house was repaired.

With the help of Surayya Nasir, Didier claimed she was staying in a 6,900-square-foot backtoback near Rollins.

It supposedly self-supported five bedrooms and an interior pool.

The actual property in which Didier was living was out shack of 860 square booth with no indoor plumbing. Relative to was no indoor pool.

Over provoke months in 2008, Didier nonchalant monthly checks from the provision company, usually for $15,250.

Nasir, a Fergus County resident accept codefendent in the case, learned as Didier’s broker.

Repair work in shape the Somers Mansion was not under any condition finished.

Didier later filed superfluous bankruptcy and the mansion was foreclosed on in 2011. She was evicted the following year.

In 2013, a California woman on the take the Somers Mansion. She vowed to restore the iconic chromatic house.

Reporter Matt Hudson may remedy reached at 758-4459 or soak email at [email protected].